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" But how can you control matter ? " he burst out. " You don't even
control the climate or the law of gravity. And there are disease,
pain, death - " O'Brien silenced him by a movement of his hand. " We
control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the
skull. You will learn by degrees, Winston. There is nothing that we
could not do. Invisibility, levitation - anything. I could float off
this floor like a soap bubble if I wish to. I do not wish to, because
the Party does not wish it. You must get rid of those nineteenth-
century ideas about the laws of Nature. We make the laws of Nature."

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Arthur Eddington: "The law that entropy always increases, 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."

L. McGlashan, Chemical thermodynamics, Academic Press, London (1979),
pp. 72-73: "For an infinitesimal change in the state of a phase alpha
we write
dU = T dS - p dV + SUM mu_B dn_B (1)
We regard equation (1) as an axiom and call it the fundamental
equation for a change of the state of a phase alpha. It is one half of
the second law of thermodynamics. We do not ask where it comes from.
Indeed we do not admit the existence of any more fundamental relations
from which it might have been derived. Nor shall we here enquire into
the history of its formulation, though that is a subject of great
interest to the historian of science. It is a starting point ; it must
be learnt by heart."

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Albert Einstein: "THERE is hardly a simpler law in physics than that
according to which light is propagated in empty space. Every child at
school knows, or believes he knows, that this propagation takes place
in straight lines with a velocity c=300,000 km./sec. At all events we
know with great exactness that this velocity is the same for all
colours, because if this were not the case, the minimum of emission
would not be observed simultaneously for different colours during the
eclipse of a fixed star by its dark neighbour. By means of similar
considerations based on observations of double stars, the Dutch
astronomer De Sitter was also able to show that the velocity of
propagation of light cannot depend on the velocity of motion of the
body emitting the light. The assumption that this velocity of
propagation is dependent on the direction “in space” is in itself
improbable. In short, let us assume that the simple law of the
constancy of the velocity of light c (in vacuum) is justifiably
believed by the child at school. Who would imagine that this simple
law has plunged the conscientiously thoughtful physicist into the
greatest intellectual difficulties?"

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Albert Einstein: "The possibility presents itself that the law of the
propagation of light in vacuo may be compatible with the principle of
relativity, and the question arises: How have we to modify the
considerations of Section VI in order to remove the apparent
disagreement between these two fundamental results of experience? This
question leads to a general one. In the discussion of Section VI we
have to do with places and times relative both to the train and to the
embankment. How are we to find the place and time of an event in
relation to the train, when we know the place and time of the event
with respect to the railway embankment? Is there a thinkable answer to
this question of such a nature that the law of transmission of light
in vacuo does not contradict the principle of relativity? In other
words: Can we conceive of a relation between place and time of the
individual events relative to both reference-bodies, such that every
ray of light possesses the velocity of transmission c relative to the
embankment and relative to the train? This question leads to a quite
definite positive answer, and to a perfectly definite transformation
law for the space-time magnitudes of an event when changing over from
one body of reference to another."

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