There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
Pierre Dos UttTags: politics philosophy economics misattributed-milton-friedman misattributed-robert-a-heinlein tanstaafl tanstafl thermodynamics
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]
Tags: science math thermodynamics mathematics algebra sum second-law-of-thermodynamics
A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?
C.P. SnowTags: humor science shakespeare literacy funny illiteracy scientists culture william-shakespeare thermodynamics standards double-standard educated second-law-of-thermodynamics
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