Thermodynamics Quotes - Page 2

• Refleja el mito imperante de que la tecnología de producción no es más susceptible al juicio humano o a los intereses sociales que las leyes de la termodinámica, la estructura atómica o la herencia biológica.

  Barry Commoner

  Technology, Law, Inheritance

  Entrevista con Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. 23 de junio de 1997.

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• Physics admits of a lovely unification, not just at the level of fundamental forces, but when considering its extent and implications. Classifications like "optics" or "thermodynamics" are just straitjackets, preventing physicists from seeing countless intersections.

  Ted Chiang

  Lovely, Fundamentals, Levels

  Ted Chiang (2016). “Arrival (Stories of Your Life MTI)”, p.52, Vintage

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• It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that gain of entropy eventually is nothing more nor less than loss of information.

  Gilbert N. Lewis

  Loss, Ideas, Information

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• I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.

  Neil Armstrong

  White, Pockets, Diagrams

  "The Engineered Century". Neil Armstrong's remarks during National Engineers Week on behalf of the National Academy of Engineering at the National Press Club, www.nae.edu. February 22, 2000.

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• There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound than the difference of plus and minus. It stands aloof from all the rest. ... It opens up a new province of knowledge, namely, the study of organisation; and it is in connection with organisation that a direction of time-flow and a distinction between doing and undoing appears for the first time.

  Arthur Eddington

  Tiempo, Conocimiento, Ciencia

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• It is possible to express the laws of thermodynamics in the form of independent principles , deduced by induction from the facts of observation and experiment, without reference to any hypothesis as to the occult molecular operations with which the sensible phenomena may be conceived to be connected; and that course will be followed in the body of the present treatise. But, in giving a brief historical sketch of the progress of thermodynamics, the progress of the hypothesis of thermic molecular motions cannot be wholly separated from that of the purely inductive theory.

  William John Macquorn Rankine

  Independent, Law, Giving

  William John Macquorn Rankine (1869). “A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers by William John Macquorn Rankine”, p.28

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• 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

  Done, May, Heat

  "On the Moving Force of Heat, and the Laws Regarding the Nature of Heat Itself Which Are Deducible Therefrom" (1851)

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• The laws of thermodynamics, as empirically determined, express the approximate and probable behavior of systems of a great number of particles, or, more precisely, they express the laws of mechanics for such systems as they appear to beings who have not the fineness of perception to enable them to appreciate quantities of the order of magnitude of those which relate to single particles, and who cannot repeat their experiments often enough to obtain any but the most probable results.

  J. Willard Gibbs

  Orden, Ley, Números

  "Elementary Principles in Statististical Mechanics". Book by J. Willard Gibbs (Preface, p. 8), 1902.

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• In thermodynamics as well as in other branches of molecular physics , the laws of phenomena have to a certain extent been anticipated, and their investigation facilitated, by the aid of hypotheses as to occult molecular structures and motions with which such phenomena are assumed to be connected. The hypothesis which has answered that purpose in the case of thermodynamics, is called that of "molecular vortices," or otherwise, the "centrifugal theory of elasticity.

  William John Macquorn Rankine

  Law, Purpose, Branches

  William John Macquorn Rankine (1869). “A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers by William John Macquorn Rankine”, p.32

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• Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as that enjoined by the law of increasing entropy, that is to say, the second law of thermodynamics. This is far more than a mere comparison: the second law is founded upon considerations identical to those which establish the irreversibility of evolution. Indeed, it is legitimate to view the irreversibility of evolution as an expression of the second law in the biosphere.

  Jacques Monod

  Science, Views, Expression

  Jacques Monod (1971). “Chance and necessity: an essay on the natural philosophy of modern biology”

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• I don't. We've had three technological revolutions that have changed the course of human history, all driven by physics. In the first, the industrial revolution, physicists developed Newtonian mechanics and thermodynamics, which gave us the steam engine and machine power. The second technological revolution was the electricity revolution. That gave us radio, television, and telecommunications. Then, physicists developed the laser and the transistor.

  Michio Kaku

  Revolution, Physics, Mechanic

  Fuente: www.psychologytoday.com

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• It is often said that the progression from simple to complex runs counter to the normal statistics of chance that are formalized in the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Strictly speaking, we could avoid this criticism simply by insisting that the Second Law does not apply to living systems in the environment in which we find them. For the Second Law applies only when there is no overall flow of energy into or out of a system, whereas all living systems are sustained by a net inflow of energy.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Running, Simple, Law

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• According to Bastardi,  human-induced climate change "contradicts what we call the 1st law of thermodynamics. Energy can be neither created nor destroyed. So to look for input of energy into the atmosphere, you have to come from a foreign source.

  Joe Bastardi

  Law, Atmosphere, Energy

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• In fact, the science of thermodynamics began with an analysis, by the great engineer Sadi Carnot, of the problem of how to build the best and most efficient engine, and this constitutes one of the few famous cases in which engineering has contributed to fundamental physical theory. Another example that comes to mind is the more recent analysis of information theory by Claude Shannon. These two analyses, incidentally, turn out to be closely related.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Engineering, Two, Mind

  "The Feynman Lectures on Physics". Physics textbook by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, and Matthew Sands, volume I; lecture 44, "The Laws of Thermodynamics"; section 44-1, "Heat engines; the first law"; p. 44-2, 1964.

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• The use of thermodynamics in biology has a long history rich in confusion.

  Harold Morowitz

  Long, Confusion, Use

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• 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

  Law, Play, Ideas

  Alan Lightman (2000). “Great Ideas in Physics”, p.1, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Todo ingeniero térmico sabe que puede diseñar su motor térmico de forma fiable y precisa basándose en la segunda ley [de la termodinámica]. Sin embargo, si nos acercamos a una molécula y le preguntamos qué piensa de la segunda ley, se reirá de nosotros. Se reirá de nosotros. Nunca ha oído hablar de la segunda ley. Hace lo que quiere. Sin embargo, un conjunto de miles de millones de moléculas de este tipo obedece la segunda ley con toda la exactitud que se pueda desear.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Running, Thinking, Law

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• La 2ª ley de la termodinámica tiene el mismo grado de verdad que la afirmación de que si tiras un vaso lleno de agua al mar, no puedes volver a sacar el mismo vaso lleno de agua.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Sea, Law, Water

  James Clerk Maxwell, Elizabeth Garber, Stephen G. Brush (1995). “Maxwell on Heat and Statistical Mechanics: On "avoiding All Personal Enquiries" of Molecules”, p.205, Lehigh University Press

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• Y cuando mi cuerpo desaparezca, ¿mi alma seguirá siendo tuya, Claire? Juro por mi esperanza en el cielo que no me separaré de ti". El viento agitó las hojas de los castaños cercanos, y los aromas del final del verano se alzaron ricos a nuestro alrededor; pino y hierba y fresas, piedra calentada por el sol y agua fresca, y el olor penetrante y almizclado de su cuerpo junto al mío. "Nada se pierde, Sassenach; sólo se cambia". "Es la primera ley de la termodinámica", dije, limpiándome la nariz. "No", dijo él. "Eso es fe.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Verano, viento, ley

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). "The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn", p.3834, Delacorte Press.

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• Envejecer es una escalera: la ascensión del espíritu humano, que nos lleva a la sabiduría, la plenitud y la autenticidad. Como ya sabrás, el mundo entero funciona según una ley universal: la entropía, la segunda ley de la termodinámica. Entropía significa que todo en el mundo, todo, está en un estado de decadencia y deterioro, el arco. Sólo hay una excepción a esta ley universal, y es el espíritu humano, que puede seguir evolucionando hacia arriba.

  Jane Fonda

  Media, Ley, Decadencia

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• En el siglo XVIII, a menudo era conveniente considerar al hombre como un autómata de relojería. En el siglo XIX, con la física newtoniana bastante asimilada y muchos trabajos de termodinámica en marcha, se consideraba al hombre como un motor térmico, con un rendimiento de alrededor del 40%. Ahora, en el siglo XX, con la física nuclear y subatómica en marcha, el hombre se ha convertido en algo que absorbe rayos X, rayos gamma y neutrones.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Men, Nuclear, Neutrons

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). "V.", p.187, Penguin

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• Encantador no es la palabra que nos vendría inmediatamente a la mente al describir una obra que trata de geometría fractal, algoritmos iterados, teoría del caos y la segunda ley de la termodinámica, pero encaja a la perfección con la asombrosa obra de Tom Stoppard de 1993, que es tan bella como brillante. Este es un drama de Stoppard que no hace falta ser Einstein para entenderlo: se puede sentir y también pensar. (...) Impresionante, estimulante y profundamente satisfactorio.

  Lyn Gardner

  Beautiful, Drama, Spring

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• Todo el mundo puede ser grande... porque todo el mundo puede servir. No hace falta tener un título universitario para servir.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Universidad, Ayudar a los demás, Grandeza

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• There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever.

  Ben Stein

  Physics, Fluid, Gravity

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• 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

  Law, Body, Firsts

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