Statistical Mechanics Quotes

#1. After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.

Rudolph A. Marcus

#2. 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.

Robert Andrews Millikan

#3. 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.

David Goodstein

#4. Bose-Einstein condensation is one of the most intriguing phenomena predicted by quantum statistical mechanics.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#5. But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.

Alan Bean

#6. Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. If you can steal from your competition, then they deserve to lose it. If someone steals from you, then shame on you ... you deserve it. Same goes for employees too.

Don Farrell

#8. I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.

Carly Fiorina

#9. I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

Quincy Jones

#10. We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries as a branch of rational mechanics.

J. Willard Gibbs

#11. It's kind of sad, the way we've turned the entertainment of reading into a kind of psychic broccoli - something to feel guilty about if you don't force it on your face-making children while dutifully consuming a few token florets yourself.

Lynn Coady

#12. It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.

Andy Goldsworthy

#13. Pornography is certainly more beautiful than eroticism. Eroticism is ugly. Eroticism is an ideology... there is nothing more boring than eroticism, it's worse than poetry, even. I say three cheers for pornography.

Pierre Guyotat

#14. Partly because his lunch box was cool, partly so he could raise the alarm and hopefully

Rick Riordan

#15. Money is God in action.

Reverend Ike