Max Planck Quote

Nature prefers more probable to less probable states... Heat flows from a body of high temperature to a body of lower temperature, because the state of equal temperature is more probable than a state of unequal distribution of temperature.


Translated by R. Jones and D.H. Williams, A Survey of Physics: A Collection of Lectures and Essays, The Unity of the Physical Universe (p. 15), Methuen & Company Ltd. 1925


Nature prefers more probable to less probable states... Heat flows from a body of high temperature to a body of lower temperature, because the state...

Nature prefers more probable to less probable states... Heat flows from a body of high temperature to a body of lower temperature, because the state...

Nature prefers more probable to less probable states... Heat flows from a body of high temperature to a body of lower temperature, because the state...

Nature prefers more probable to less probable states... Heat flows from a body of high temperature to a body of lower temperature, because the state...