David Goodstein

David Goodstein (April 5, 1939 – April 10, 2024) was an American physicist and professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology.

Quotes

• Human civilization as we know it will end, sometime in the 21st century.
  • Public lecture on peak oil and energy, November 2004.
• Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics. Perhaps it will be wise to approach the subject cautiously.
  • States of Matter (1974), p. 1.