Cheryl Rofer

Arrogance and scientific rules of thumb

One of my favorite sources of rules of thumb is thermodynamics. It doesn’t tell you how to do things, or how fast you can do them, but it tells you whether something, like running your car on water, is impossible.

July 5, 2010

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