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I pointed out in the second part of my paper... that my Minimum Theorem, as well as the so-called Second Law of Thermodynamics, are only theorems of probability. The Second Law can never be proved mathematically by means of the equations of dynamics alone.

— Ludwig Boltzmann On Certain Questions of the Theory of Gases (1895)

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Who sees the future? Let us have free scope for all directions of research; away with dogmatism, either atomistic or anti-atomistic!

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