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The (three laws of thermodynamics) are equivalent to the laws of gambling in the old Wild West: 1. You can't win. 2. You can't break even. 3. You may not leave the game.
German female physicist Emmy Noether pointed out that the law of the conservation of linear momentum arises directly from the fact that the laws of physics do not change when the point of view is shifted linearly in space.
On one occasion Langmuir passed his wheels through the top of a cloud, and was astonished to find that the wheel-tracks remained. In following up this observation he eventually developed new methods of weather modification, mostly concerned with 'cloud seeding'.
He dramatically tried his untested rabies vaccine in 1885 on a nine-year-old boy, Josef Meister, who had been bitten by a rabid dog. Meister lived to become caretaker of the Pasteur institute, and died fifty-five years later by committing suicide rather than open the tomb of Pasteur to invading Nazi forces.
Pouring oil on troubled waters: This idea goes back to the Venerable Bede, who gave this sage advice in his Ecclesiastical History, book 3, chapter 15.
Brillat-Savarin's reverence for the aftereffects of eating were reflected by Rossini, who was no mean gourmet himself, in four musical pieces collectively entitled The Gourmet Life and intended to represent the process of digestion.

"How To Dunk A Doughnut" [.]