Quotes About Second Law Of Thermodynamics

#1. 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!

Stephen Hawking

#2. The Second Law of Thermodynamics: If you think things are in a mess now, just wait!

Jim Warner

#3. Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that

Daniel Dennett

#4. I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics. The great ideas in science, like the Cro-Magnon paintings and the plays of Shakespeare, are part of our cultural heritage.

Alan Lightman

#5. Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

Norman Ralph Augustine

#6. We define thermodynamics ... as the investigation of the dynamical and thermal properties of bodies, deduced entirely from the first and second law of thermodynamics, without speculation as to the molecular constitution.

James Clerk Maxwell

#7. 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.

Neil Armstrong

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

Seth Lloyd

#9. That's what makes the creationist viewpoint not just staggeringly wrong, but sadly impoverished. In twisting around the Second Law of Thermodynamics, they take a powerful tool for understanding the world and try to make it into a barrier to understanding instead.

Bill Nye

#10. 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]

Rudolf Clausius

#11. Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler, and easier to create a new burden than kill an old one.

Clay Shirky

#12. Do you believe in vampires? Not the sparkly variety.

Sarah Beth Durst

#13. Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.

Simon Van Booy

#14. something about the stillness or my state of mind reminded me of the world's remarkable capacity to carry on in every place at once.

Marina Keegan

#15. Hmm. Petty? Yes. Ineffectual? Yes. Infuriating and off-putting? Yes. Counterproductive? Yes. It's got to be a product of the French Foreign Ministry.

Glenn Reynolds

#16. There are more inspirational people in music than there are in politics.

Kinky Friedman

#17. Librarianship is a form of heroism. It's just not as flashy as swords and dragons.

Seanan McGuire

#18. Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

George Bernard Shaw

#19. My feeling is that if all Catholics or Reformed Christians had been deported to Germany, the Dutch government in London would have instructed the population in the occupied Netherlands to help them.

Els Borst

#20. Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

Jim Harrison

#21. I am very proud. It is always fun to win such a prize, to be chosen as Swedens best player a certain year.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic