The British physicist and novelist C. P. Snow once said that a nonscientist who didn't know the second law of thermodynamics was like a scientist who had never read Shakespeare.

英国物理学家和小说家C·P斯诺曾说过一个不是科学家的人不知道热力学定律的话就如同一个科学家未曾看过莎士比亚的著作一般。

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For example, that there's a lack of transitional fossils and that the second law of thermodynamics makes evolution impossible.

例如，缺乏渐进性过渡生物化石，热力学第二定律证明了进化论是不可能的，等等。

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This, in a nutshell, is the second law of thermodynamics, which states that the entropy (a measure of the disorder) in a closed physical system never decreases.

简单来说，热力学第二定律表明在一个封闭的系统中，熵是不会降低的。

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It's almost as important as the second law of thermodynamics, which you'll see in a week or so.

几乎同热力学第二定律,一样重要，你们将在接下来的几周时间里看到这点。

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