.... The cycle of operations aimed at in these caissons wast o erect a 4-foot strake of plates with its internal bracing, to place 4 feet of concrete, and to sink the caisson 4 feet in depth in 48 hours. This programme was not always achieved in practice, but it did give a basis for the organization...

... of thermodynamicswith its inexorable tendencytowards increasing disorder and degeneracy is apparently balanced by something in nature which for the past thousand million years or so has exhibited a precisely opposite tendency, namely a movement towards greater complexity, increasing order, and a higher organization...