James Jeans Quote

The fabric of the universe weathers, crumbles, and dissolves with age, and no restoration or reconstruction is possible. The second law of thermodynamics compels the material universe to move ever in the same direction along the same road, a road which ends only in death and annihilation.

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, - 1929, The Physics of the Universe (p. 178)