
Top 17 Rudolf Clausius Quotes
#1. Rudolf Clausius coined the word in 1865, in the course of creating a science of thermodynamics. He needed to name a certain quantity that he had discovered - a quantity related to energy, but not energy.
James Gleick
#2. His true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of more than one science.
{Gibbs's obituary for scientist Rudolf Clausius}
Josiah Willard Gibbs
#3. There is no easy way out!
There is no shortcut home!
Robert Tepper
#4. I love reality TV and everything, and it's something that I truly love to do, and I love the outcome of it; it's like my art. I consider my reality show as my art piece, and it's like a sculpture that I built; it's my baby.
Kendra Wilkinson
#5. The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium.
Rudolf Clausius
#6. Self-care means accepting some risk, and accepting much responsibility. It is not for all people or all cases.
Andrew Saul
#7. The total energy of the universe is constant; the total entropy is continually increasing.
Rudolf Clausius
#8. In all cases where work is produced by heat, a quantity of heat proportional to the work done is expended; and inversely, by the expenditure of a like quantity of work, the same amount of heat may be produced.
Rudolf Clausius
#10. We don't know what proportion of public funds is regularly lost to collusion and corruption. Is it 25 per cent? 30 per cent? We do know that a portion of these public funds are feeding organized crime.
Pauline Marois
#11. Seeking new sensations while violating the sacred first desecrates the self and finally destroys the sensation.
Ravi Zacharias
#13. Heat can never pass from a colder to a warmer body without some other change, connected therewith, occurring at the same time.
Rudolf Clausius
#14. I tended to give a book a chance and another chance and another, sometimes seeing it all the way to the end, still hoping for for it turn out different. Maybe I was confused about what you owed a book. What you owed people, for that matter, real or fictional.
Deb Caletti
#15. 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
#16. The fundamental laws of the universe which correspond to the two fundamental theorems of the mechanical theory of heat.
1. The energy of the universe is constant.
2. The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.
Rudolf Clausius
#17. If you are surrounded by people who not only don't believe in your goals and your positive outlook on life, but who also continually try to tear you down, it will be extremely challenging for you to hold firmly in mind that you will succeed and that you can be happy.
Chris Prentiss
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