Second Law of Thermodynamics

"The second law of thermodynamics not only is a principle of wide reaching scope and application, but also is one which has never failed to satisfy the severest test of experiment. The numerous quantitative relations derived from this law have been subjected to more and more accurate expermental investigation without the detection of the slightest inaccuracy." *G.N. Lewis and *M. Randall, Thermodynamics (1961), p. 87.
 
"There is thus no justification for the view, often glibly repeated, that the Second Law of thermodynamics is only statistically true, in the sense that microscopic violations repeatedly occur, but never violations of any serious magitude. On the contrary, no evidence has ever been presented that the SEcond Law breaks down under any circumstances." *A.B. Pippard, Elements of Chemical Thermodynamics for Advanced Students of Physics (1966), p. 100
 
"The Second law of thermodynamics predicts that a system left to itself will in the course of time, go toward greater disorder." *Harold Blum, Time's Arrow and Evolution (1968), pp. 201
 
"The greatest puzzle is where all the order in the universe came from originally. How did the cosmos get wound up, if the second law of thermodynamics predicts asymmetric unwinding toward disorder?" *Paul C.W. Davies (1979).
 

"[A Law] is more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its range of applicability. Therefore, the deep impression which classical thermodynamics made on me. It is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced, that within the framework of applicability of its basic concepts will never be over thrown." *Albert Einstein, quoted in *M.J. Klien, "Thermodynamics in Einstein's Universe, "in Science, 157 (1967), p. 509; also in *Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Natural Quotations, p. 76.

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