"[T]he conception associated with entropy... marked a reaction from the view that everything to which science must pay attention is discovered by a microscopic dissection of objects. ...[T]he centre of interest is shifted from the entities reached by the customary analysis (atoms, electric potentials, etc.) to qualities possessed by the system as a whole... The artist... resorts to an impressionist painting. ...[T]he physicist has found ...his impressionist scheme is just as much exact science and even more practical ...than his microscopic scheme."