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"Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!" – William Wordsworth
"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos." – Mary Shelley, in the Introduction to "Frankenstein" (1818).
"The laws of thermodynamics may be regarded as particular cases of more general laws, applicable to all such states of matter as constitute Energy, or the capacity to perform work, which more general laws form the basis of the science of energetics, — a science comprehending, as special branches, the theories of motion, heat, light, electricity, and all other physical phenomena." – William John Macquorn Rankine, in "A Manual of the Steam Engine and other Prime…
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