Ludwig Boltzmann

The fight for ideas is noble.

Humor bridges the gap between genius and madness.

The thermodynamic limit justifies mean-field approximations.

The essence of wisdom is humility before nature.

Life defies the second law momentarily.

My final smile is for the beauty of theory.

The pressure in ideal gas from momentum transfer.

Criticism fuels improvement.

The universe's clock ticks towards disorder.

I jest that my brain is a gas of ideas.

The canonical ensemble with fixed temperature.

The greatest good is knowledge shared.

In entropy's embrace, all things equalize.

My work was my life; now it continues without me.

If you are looking for a profound truth, you will find it in the details.

The general equations of mechanics are not sufficient to explain the irreversibility of natural processes.

The second law of thermodynamics is the most important law of nature.

The struggle for existence is a struggle for entropy.

The universe is a gigantic heat engine.

The task of theory is to construct a picture of the world that is as simple and as complete as possible.