Second Law Thermodynamics Quotes

#1. 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

#2. If scientists don't play God, who will?

James D. Watson

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus.

Katy Perry

#7. Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine,
Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast;
Custards for supper, and an endless host
Of syllabubs and jellies and mincepies,
And other such ladylike luxuries.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#8. Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.

Gautama Buddha

#9. It is rightly said that we all are equal. The only thing that puts us in a hierarchy is our effort.

Varun Bhat

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

Seth Lloyd

#11. But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.

Rudy Rucker

#12. O Lord, as I walk through the valley of the shadow of doubt, at least let me
wear a Walkman ...

David Levithan

#13. In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.

Ellsworth Huntington

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. In brief, I spend half my time trying to learn the secrets of other writers - to apply them to the expression of my own thoughts.

Shirley Ann Grau

#17. Don't wait to "feel" like doing a thing to do it. Live by decision, not emotion.

Joyce Meyer

#18. 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

#19. 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

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

Daniel Dennett

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

Jim Warner

#22. Life is extraordinarily resilient. It's been around for over a billion years.

Geoffrey West