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"Certain laws of science ... are formulated in an ethnocentric and rascist way. The Second Law of Thermodynamics, so central to classical physics, is a case in point. Due to its industrial origins, the Second Law presents a definition of efficiency that favours high temperatures and the allocation of resources to big industry. Work done at ordinary temperatures is by definition inefficient."

-- Introducing Science by Ziauddin Sardar and Borin Van Loon