Thermodynamics

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Quotes & humor

  • A common scientific joke, as stated by C.P. Snow, expresses the four laws simply and surprisingly accurately as:
Zeroth: "You must play the game."
First: "You can't win."
Second: "You can't break even."
Third: "You can't quit the game."
"Thermodynamics is a funny subject. The first time you go through it, you don't understand it at all. The second time you go through it, you think you understand it, except for one or two small points. The third time you go through it, you know you don't understand it, but by that time you are so used to it, it doesn't bother you any more."
  • The British duo Flanders and Swann wrote a comic song (possibly the comic song) about the First and Second laws, called simply "First and Second Law" [1]

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Wikibooks

  1. http://www.iankitching.me.uk/humour/hippo/entropy.html Transcript of "First and Second Law"