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“To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely ignorant of history, biology, thermodynamics, morality, and self-preservation.”

Self Culture Morality Civilization Ignorant Biology Destroying Preservation Self Preservation Thermodynamics

Book:Endgame

Source: Endgame

“The elevator shaft was a kind of heat sink. Hot food was cold by the time it arrived. Cold food got colder. No one knew what would happen to ice cream, but it would probably involve some rewriting of the laws of thermodynamics.”

Kind Happens Law Cold Hot Ice Heat Cream Ice Cream Elevators Rewriting Thermodynamics

Book:Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)

Source: Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)

“And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours, Claire? I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you." The wind stirred the leaves of the chestnut trees nearby, and the scents of late summer rose up rich around us; pine and grass and strawberries, sun-warmed stone and cool water, and the sharp, musky smell of his body next to mine. "Nothing is lost, Sassenach; only changed." "That's the first law of thermodynamics," I said, wiping my nose. "No," he said. "That's faith.”

Source: The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn

“I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer - born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace, and propelled by compressible flow.”

Body Law Born White Flow Tables Pockets Transformed Engineers Sock Steam Protector Nerdy Thermodynamics Diagrams

Author:Neil Armstrong

“Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906 by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.”

Hands Science Turns Study Died Mechanic Carrying On Thermodynamics

Author:David Goodstein

“It is a remarkable fact that the second law of thermodynamics has played in the history of science a fundamental role far beyond its original scope. Suffice it to mention Boltzmann's work on kinetic theory, Planck's discovery of quantum theory or Einstein's theory of spontaneous emission, which were all based on the second law of thermodynamics.”

Facts Law Science Roles Hard Work Theory Discovery Bases Originals Fundamentals Remarkable Quantum Spontaneous Scope Emissions Quantum Theory History Of Science Thermodynamics

Author:Ilya Prigogine

“Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally a vision-in the minds of those who built them. Society is where it is today because people had the perception; the images and the imagination; the creativity that the Arts provide, to make the world the place we live in today.”

People World Mind Firsts Art Today Imagination Vision Creativity Theory Perception Built Structure Carpe Diem Rockets Geometry Pyramids Cathedrals Carpe Thermodynamics

Author:Eugene S. Ferguson

“Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as that enjoined by the law of increasing entropy, that is to say, the second law of thermodynamics. This is far more than a mere comparison: the second law is founded upon considerations identical to those which establish the irreversibility of evolution. Indeed, it is legitimate to view the irreversibility of evolution as an expression of the second law in the biosphere.”

Law Science Process Views Expression Evolution Mere Consideration Comparison Defining Identical Entropy Irreversible Thermodynamics Biosphere

Book:Chance and necessity: an essay on the natural philosophy of modern biology

Source: Chance and necessity: an essay on the natural philosophy of modern biology

“There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound than the difference of plus and minus. It stands aloof from all the rest. ... It opens up a new province of knowledge, namely, the study of organisation; and it is in connection with organisation that a direction of time-flow and a distinction between doing and undoing appears for the first time.”

“A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended is its area of applicability. Therefore the deep impression which classical thermodynamics made upon me. It is the only physical theory of universal content concerning which I am convinced that within the framework of the applicability of its basic concepts, it will never be overthrown.”

Source: A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein

“Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.”

Science Theory Universal Convinced Thermodynamics

Author:Albert Einstein

“If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations - then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation - well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.”

“It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that gain of entropy eventually is nothing more nor less than loss of information.”

Way Persons Ideas Easy Loss Information Gains Thrive Entropy Thermodynamics

Author:Gilbert N. Lewis

“Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that”

Law Objects Cost Economics Thermodynamics

Author:Daniel Dennett

“It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.”

Humans Law Social Interest Technology Judgment Structure Productions Myth Inheritance Prevailing Thermodynamics Amenable Atomic Structure

Author:Barry Commoner

“Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics almost trivial. Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. You can't have a safer bet than that!”

Remember Law Order Computer Increase Disorder Entropy Thermodynamics

Book:A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

Source: A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

“Thermodynamics is a funny subject. The first time you go through it, you don't understand it at all. The second time you go through it, you think you understand it, except for one or two small points. The third time you go through it, you know you don't understand it, but by that time you are so used to it, it doesn't bother you any more.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Two Used Subjects First Time Thirds Bother Thermodynamics Third Time

Author:Arnold Sommerfeld

“Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.”

Law Life Is Certain Taxes Inaccessible Metabolism Thermodynamics

Author:Seth Lloyd

“Tell me it's never been done. Because the only real laws in this world-the only things we really know-are the two postulates of relativity, the three laws of Newton, the four laws of thermodynamics, and Maxwell's equation-no, scratch that, the only things we really know are Maxwell's equations, the three laws of Newton, the two postulates of relativity, and the periodic table. That's all we know that's true. All the rest are man's laws”

Knows Men World Two Real Done Law Three Four This World Tables Equations Scratches Newton Relativity Thermodynamics Maxwell Periodic Table

Author:Dean Kamen

“The 2nd law of thermodynamics has the same degree of truth as the statement that if you throw a tumblerful of water into the sea, you cannot get the same tumblerful of water out again.”

Ifs Law Water Sea Degrees Statements Thermodynamics

Book:Maxwell on Heat and Statistical Mechanics: On

Source: Maxwell on Heat and Statistical Mechanics: On

“Of all the statements that have been made with respect to theories on the origin of life, the statement that the Second Law of Thermodynamics poses no problem for an evolutionary origin of life is the most absurd… The operation of natural processes on which the Second Law of Thermodynamics is based is alone sufficient, therefore, to preclude the spontaneous evolutionary origin of the immense biological order required for the origin of life.”

Has Beens Made Problem Law Life Is Order Process Natural Theory Statements Absurd Operations Sufficient Immense Spontaneous No Problem Origin Of Life Thermodynamics

Author:Duane Gish

“Willard Gibbs did for statistical mechanics and for thermodynamics what Laplace did for celestial mechanics and Maxwell did for electrodynamics, namely, made his field a well-nigh finished theoretical structure.”

Wells Made Fields Structure Finished Mechanic Theoretical Celestial Thermodynamics Maxwell

Author:Robert Andrews Millikan

“The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal to nothing. Statement of the second law of thermodynamics, 1862”

Law Process Cases Equal Transformation Extremes Statements Being Positive Thermodynamics

Author:Rudolf Clausius

“Entropy is one of the laws of thermodynamics. It's a physical law that says everything in nature is moving from order to disorder. In our lives this same principle is at work. As time moves on, things break down as we make mistakes. This is the 'letdown' every person experiences because of sin. For Christians this concept doesn't end there because we realize God's 'beautiful' mercy and grace restores the order in our lives.”

“Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.”

“You only need a heart full of grace”

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.”

Ifs Law Damn Zero Fourth Probability Thermodynamics

Author:David R. Ellis

“Evolutionism as taught by Darwinism has nothing to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe, gravity, thermodynamics, motion, how those originated. It's got some gigantic missing pieces.”

Universe Principles Pieces Missing Taught Gravity Governing Fluid Darwinism Thermodynamics Missing Piece

Author:Ben Stein

“Once I got home, I sulked for a while. All my brilliant plans foiled by thermodynamics. Damn you, Entropy!”

Home Plans Brilliant Damn Entropy Thermodynamics Damn You

Author:Andy Weir

“Enchanting is not the word that would immediately spring to mind when describing a play that deals with fractal geometry, iterated algorithms, chaos theory and the second law of thermodynamics, but it is a perfect fit for Tom Stoppard's astonishing 1993 play, which is as beautiful as it is brilliant. This is one Stoppard drama that you don't have to be Einstein to understand -- you can feel it as well as think it. (...) Breathtaking, exhilarating and deeply satisfying.”

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