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“The law that entropy always increases — the second law of
thermodynamics — holds, I think,
the supreme position among the laws of Nature.
If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe
is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations — then
so much the worse for Maxwell's equations.
If it is found to be contradicted by observation — well,
these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes.
But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics
I can give you no hope;
there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.”
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