On Energy (1920-1929)

"For a modern ruler the laws of conservation and transformation of energy, when the vivifing stream takes its source, the ways it wends its course in nature, and how, under wisdom and knowledge, it may be intertwined with human destiny, instead of careering headlong to the ocean, are a study at least as pregnant with consequences to life as any lesson taught by the long unscientific history of man." (Frederick Soddy, "Science and Life", 1920)

"The history of man is dominated by, and reflects, the amount of available energy." (Frederick Soddy, "Science and Life", 1920)

"Revolution is everywhere, in everything. It is infinite. There is no final revolution, no final number. The social revolution is only one of an infinite number of numbers; the law of revolution is not a social law, but an immeasurably greater one. It is a cosmic, universal law - like the laws of the conservation of energy and of the dissipation of energy (entropy)." (Yevgeny Zamiatin, "On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters", 1923)

"Revolution is everywhere, in everything. It is infinite. There is no final revolution, no final number. The social revolution is only one of an infinite number of numbers; the law of revolution is not a social law, but an immeasurably greater one. It is a cosmic, universal law - like the laws of the conservation of energy and of the dissipation of energy" (entropy)." (Yevgeny Zamiatin, "On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters", 1923)

"[Ignorance] of the principle of conservation of energy […] does not prevent inventors without background from continually putting forward perpetual motion machines… Also, such persons undoubtedly have their exact counterparts in the fields of art, finance, education, and all other departments of human activity […] persons who are unwilling to take the time and to make the effort required to find what the known facts are before they become the champions of unsupported opinions - people who take sides first and look up facts afterward when the tendency to distort the facts to conform to the opinions has become well-nigh irresistible." (Robert A Millikan, "Evolution in Science and Religion", 1927) 

"In classical science, it was strange to find that action [...] should yet present the artificial aspect of an energy in space multiplied by a duration. As soon, however, as we realise that the fundamental continuum of the universe is one of space-time and not one of separate space and time, the reason for the importance of the seemingly artificial combination of space with time in the expression for the action receives a very simple explanation. Henceforth, action is no longer energy in a volume of space multiplied by a duration; it is simply energy in a volume of the world, that is to say, in a volume of four-dimensional space-time." (Aram D'Abro, "The Evolution of Scientific Thought from Newton to Einstein", 1927)

"An 'empty world', i. e., a homogeneous manifold at all points at which equations" (1) are satisfied, has, according to the theory, a constant Riemann curvature, and any deviation from this fundamental solution is to be directly attributed to the influence of matter or energy." (Howard P. Robertson, "On Relativistic Cosmology", 1928)

"Social organizations are flagrantly open systems in that the input of energies and the conversion of output into further energy input consists of transactions between the organization and its environment." (Daniel Katz, "The Social Psychology of Organizations", 1929)