Thermodynamics stayed hidden until people built steam engine
这或许是你所能说的、关于整个宇宙演化最根本的一件事。然而直到人们开始建造蒸汽机，才有人想到它。
English original
It's maybe the most fundamental thing that you can say about the evolution of the entire universe. And yet it's not something that anyone thought of until they were building steam engines.
在《Quanta》杂志一篇关于计算基础的报道中