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Full Idea
Anything can be more speedily disintegrated than put together again.
Gist of Idea
It is quicker to break things up than to assemble them
Source
Lucretius (On the Nature of the Universe [c.60 BCE], I.558)
Book Ref
Lucretius: 'On the Nature of the Universe', ed/tr. Latham,Ronald [Penguin 1951], p.43
A Reaction
Clearly the concept of entropy was around long before anyone tried to give a systematic or mathematical account of it.
| 1696 | Change goes from possession to loss (as in baldness), but not the other way round [Aristotle] |
| 5700 | It is quicker to break things up than to assemble them [Lucretius] |
| 20625 | Third Law: total order and minimum entropy only occurs at absolute zero [Close] |
| 22905 | Becoming disordered is much easier for a system than becoming ordered [Bardon] |
| 19950 | Entropy is the only time-asymmetric law, so time may be linked to entropy [New Sci.] |
| 23009 | There is no second 'law' of thermodynamics; it just reflects probabilities of certain microstates [Baron/Miller] |