"Entropy was not in the same category as the other physical quantities ...and the extension ...was in a very dangerous direction. ...But entropy had secured a firm place in physics before it was discovered that it was a measure of the random element in arrangement. It was in great favour with the engineers. ...[A]t that time it was the general assumption that the Creation was the work of an engineer (not of a mathematician, as is the fashion nowadays)."

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