Professor Eddington has recently remarked that 'The law that entropy always increases — the second law of thermodynamics — holds, I think, the suprem… - Ronald Fisher

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Professor Eddington has recently remarked that 'The law that entropy always increases — the second law of thermodynamics — holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of nature'. It is not a little instructive that so similar a law [the fundamental theorem of natural selection] should hold the supreme position among the biological sciences.