In thermodynamics quotes, human thermodynamics quotes are those rare passages, quotations, and definitions, tabulated below, using the specific term "human thermodynamics". To note, those quotes made before April 27, 2005, the date that American chemical engineer Libb Thims launched the first human thermodynamics website (HumanThermodynamics.com) and thereafter began to publicly promote and to build the theoretical foundations of the science of human thermodynamics, via articles, books, textbooks, journals, videos, lectures, etc., can be considered original and independent conceptions in the mind of each person quoted. A few quotes after 2005, e.g. John Anderson, however, seem remain independent or unconnected to the work of Thims.

Year	Quote	Photo	Person
1893	“Human thermodynamics [concerns] vital heat of the body; experiments on the amount of heat developed by human beings when in action, measurement of oxygen inhaled; respiration shown to be the principle source of heat.”		Gustave Hirn [1] (written by Bryan Donkin)
1946	“Contributions to the thermodynamics of scientific humanism [concerns] insights on the nature of time, [as in] personal or psychological time, and refers to the unification of the specialized sciences effected by the contributions they make to the proper study of mankind, man’s nature and destiny.”		Alfred Ubbelohde [2]
1952	“Through determining some kind of laws of human thermodynamics, we shall be more successful in doing good in the world. I am going to try to see what these laws of human thermodynamics are; of course they cannot be expected to have the hard outline of the laws of physical science, but still I think some of them can be given a fairly definite form.”		C.G. Darwin [3]
1954	“There are no known laws of human thermodynamics.”		Howard Green [18]
1994	“Based on identities of adhesion, individuals are seen as a mass, as numbers, independent of their molecular wealth. The molar group organizes a kind of human thermodynamics, an exteriorized channeling of behavior and character that squanders individual qualities.”		Pierre Levy [4]
1995	“Humans, like all mammals, are ruled by the laws of thermodynamics.”		Stanley Ulijaszek [19]
1999	“Human thermodynamics [is] the science concerned with the relations between heat and work [applied to the study of] human beings [viewed as] physiological engines.”		Karlis Ullis [5]
1999	"It's just human thermodynamics, my friend," John said stiffly, "you're inside the jaws of laws beyond your ken."		Forbes Allan [6]
2000	“Our school tragedies are an early warning of something inherent in the laws of human thermodynamics.”		John Gatto [7]
2005	“I think human thermodynamics is pseudoscience. The interchanging of words with precise scientific meanings, i.e. bond, energy, reaction, hot, etc., with their everyday meanings is one of the cornerstones of pseudoscience. Of course human beings obey the laws of thermodynamics like everything else in the universe, but the website and books [being advertised] are trying to apply some equations which only describe larger systems of microscopic particles to analogous situations between human beings, just because the everyday and scientific words involved happen to correspond.”		Edward Sanville [8]
2006	“The conclusions of hierarchical thermodynamics correspond excellently to Libb Thims’ conception of the thermodynamics of human molecules.”		Georgi Gladyshev [9]
2006	“The novel [Doctor Faustus] is in one sense a study in human thermodynamics—what it takes to make certain kinds of total and fundamental changes. In totally starting over, as opposed to gradually starting evolution, the Nazi experience suggests that what is necessary is a collective quantity of energy that is available only in the primitive and unconscious human energy centers, those energy centers deposited by hundreds of thousands of years of survival tactics—the reptile centers in our brains.”		John Anderson [10]
2007	“Human thermodynamics [is] the chemical thermodynamic study of human molecular reaction life.”		Libb Thims [11]
2007	“At first, [Thims'] theory looks strange, but after time, following further thought and understanding, I did not find any arguments against it … if we have rules for molecular behavior, why not adapt these molecular terms for human behavior; moreover, until human thermodynamics, there had never been a direct link between fingerprints, which reflect the character and health of a person, and DNA– this phenomenon can now be explained.”		Viktor Minkin [17]
2008	If we accept Thims’ logic of human thermodynamics as a viable explanatory framework, which it very well is, romantic bonding then becomes the subject matter of quantum electrodynamics (QED), an aspect of particle physics that traces human attachment and bonding to the interactions of photons and electrons.		Satch Ejike [12]
2009	“No sense will come of currently half-baked human thermodynamics whatsoever, even as a metaphor, let alone an actual science, until if ever, energy can be explicitly defined in the context of human thermodynamics.”		Aaron Agassi [13]
2009	“I have immense difficulties in human thermodynamics being presented to students as a viable scientific theory when it is simply pseudoscientific nonsense. The first law is simply the conservation of energy. But, the concept of energy (internal, free, or otherwise) in Thims' human thermodynamics is ill-defined. Why is this? Well, it's because the entire human thermodynamics concept is fundamentally flawed.”		Philip Moriarty [14]
2009	“Most restrictions are imposed upon equilibrium processes; and it is these that can be traced backward, from final to initial states. Many geological processes can be demonstrated to have been equilibrium (to varying degrees of assuredness), their slowness and high temperatures apparently permitting the changes within a hand specimen to have proceeded so efficiently that we cannot detect any production of 'uncompensated heat'. The application of equilibrium thermodynamics, with its many conservative equations, to a natural classification of geological objects was anticipated to be a very fertile field of study. This should be the same with a valid human thermodynamics.”		Bruce Bathurst [15]
2009	“Extraction of low entropy from and insertion of high entropy into the environment makes the global economy and all human activity on the aggregate a throughput of energy, with a second-law-dictated degradation in tow. These are introductory level observations in ecological economics but they provide a ‘from the top down,’ intuition-honing demonstration why interactions even among a small group of people over a very short period of time are within the purview of human thermodynamics.”		Peter Pogany [16]
2009	“Much of this [economic] gain was due to improvement in human thermodynamic efficiency. The rate of converting human energy input into work output appears to have increased by about 50 percent since 1790.”		Robert Fogel [20]

See also
● Entropy quotes

References
1. Donkin, Bryan. (1893). “The Scientific Work of Gustav Adolph Hirn in 7 Chapters (1845-1888)” (pgs. 145-201); Ch. V: Human thermodynamics, pg. 176-83)”, Transactions of the Manchester Association of Engineers (table of contents: human thermo-dynamics, pg. 176). Herald & Walker Printers.
2. Ubbelohde, Alfred René. (1947). Time and Thermodynamics (ch. I: Contributions to the Thermodynamics of Scientific Humanism, pgs. 1-10) (signed June 1946). Oxford University Press.
3. Darwin, Charles G. (1952). The Next Million Years (pg. 26), London: Rupert Hart-Davis.
4. (a) Levy, Pierre. (1994). L'intelligence collective. Pour une anthropologie du cyberespace. Paris: La Découverte.
(b) Levy, Pierre. (1997). Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace, Page 52, New York: Basic Books.
5. Ullis, Karlis. (1999). Age Right - Turn Back the Clock with a Proven Antiaging Program, (section: "Human Thermodynamics", pg. 34-36) New York: Simon & Schuster.
6. Allan, Forbes. (1999). Milton's Progress (Chapter 21). Rowanlea Grove Press.
7. Gatto, John T. (2000). The Underground History of American Education (ch. 17: The Politics of Schooling, section: “The Planetary Management Corporation”). Oxford Village Press.
8. Sanville, Edward and Thims, Libb. (2005). “Human Thermodynamics: Science or Pseudoscience”, conversation originating on Wikipedia talk pages (Sep–Oct). IoHT Publications.
9. Gladyshev G. P. (2006). "The Principle of Substance Stability is Applicable to all Levels of Organization of Living Matter", International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Vol. 7, pgs. 98-110 (quote pg. 107).
10. Anderson, John P. (2006). Mann’s Doctor Faustus: Gestapo Music (pgs. 23). Universal Publishers.
11. Thims, Libb. (2007). Human Chemistry (Volume Two), (Ch. 16: "Human Thermodynamics", pgs. 653-702, definition, pg. 653), (preview). Morrisville, NC: LuLu.
12. Ejike, Satch U. (2008). Find a Good Man and Keep Him (keyword: "human thermodynamics", pg. 30) (Google Books). AuthorHouse.
13. (a) Agassi, Aaron. (2009). “Comment: Moriarty Thims Debate”, Sep 04.
(b) Aaron Agassi – MySpace.com.
(c) Aaron Agassi – FoolQuest.com.
14. Moriarty, Philip . (2009). "Comment #38: Moriarty Thims Detate", Sep 07.
15. (a) Bathurst, Bruce. (2009). "Comment #42: Moriarty Thims Debate", Sep 08.
(b) User:Bruce Bathurst - Wikipedia.
16. Pogany, Peter. (2009). “Comment #52: Moriarty Thims Debate”, Sept. 08.
17. Thims, Libb. (2007). Human Chemistry (Volume One) (Praise for, pgs. ix-x) (preview), (Google books). Morrisville, NC: LuLu.
18. Green, Howard. (1954). “Book Review: The Next Million Years”, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, pg. 55. Feb.
19. Ulijaszek, Stanley J. (1995). Human Energetics in Biological Anthropology (pg. 23). Cambridge University Press.
20. Fogel, Robert W. (2009). “Biotechnology and the Burden of the Age-Related Diseases” (pg. 17). In: Human Capital and Institutions: A Long-Run View (pgs. 11-26), by: David Eltis, Frank D. Lewis, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. Cambridge University Press.