Quote#Nature
The 2nd law of thermodynamics has the same degree of truth as the…
Quote byJames Clerk Maxwell · 1831–1879
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: in a letter to Lord Rayleigh, as quoted in John William Strutt, Third Baron Rayleigh (1924), p. 47..
English (original)
The 2nd law of thermodynamics has the same degree of truth as the statement that if you throw a tumblerful of water into the sea, you cannot get the same tumblerful of water out again.
— James Clerk Maxwell
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