Gibbs Books
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avg rating 4.06 — 2,837 ratings — published 1983

by (shelved 2 times as gibbs)
avg rating 4.42 — 7,594 ratings — published 2014

by (shelved 2 times as gibbs)
avg rating 4.49 — 4,984 ratings — published 2017

by (shelved 2 times as gibbs)
avg rating 4.41 — 7,050 ratings — published 2016

by (shelved 2 times as gibbs)
avg rating 4.40 — 15,597 ratings — published 2013

by (shelved 2 times as gibbs)
avg rating 4.21 — 16,048 ratings — published 2010

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.11 — 96 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.47 — 5,427 ratings — published 2018

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.51 — 10,173 ratings — published 2017

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.54 — 11,637 ratings — published 2016

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.49 — 5,701 ratings — published 2015

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.27 — 14,877 ratings — published 2014

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.50 — 13,264 ratings — published 2015

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.11 — 35,291 ratings — published 2012

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.57 — 131 ratings — published 2001

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.35 — 425 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.38 — 266 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.20 — 78,158 ratings — published 1956

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 3.61 — 534,934 ratings — published 2018

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.24 — 63 ratings — published 2015

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 3.84 — 171,413 ratings — published 1914

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 3.64 — 16,867 ratings — published 2021

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,009,514 ratings — published 2006

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.43 — 403 ratings — published 2003

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.37 — 311 ratings — published 1983

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.12 — 39,194 ratings — published 1943

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.16 — 528 ratings — published 2002

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 3.85 — 178,853 ratings — published 1667

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,274,218 ratings — published 1846

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,786,791 ratings — published 1818

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.14 — 347,814 ratings — published 1989

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,397,498 ratings — published 1943

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,947 ratings — published 1987

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 3.72 — 37,216 ratings — published 1950

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.02 — 236,498 ratings — published 1908

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,382 ratings — published 1855

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 3.74 — 7,152 ratings — published 1790

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 3.50 — 18,833 ratings — published 1115

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,291 ratings — published 524

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,230 ratings — published 1947

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.32 — 25 ratings — published 1915

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.52 — 7,560 ratings — published 2019

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.39 — 3,615 ratings — published 2019

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,749,618 ratings — published 1993

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.12 — 362 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 3.66 — 913 ratings — published 2015

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 4.16 — 10,658 ratings — published 2012

by (shelved 1 time as gibbs)
avg rating 3.78 — 3,761 ratings — published 2013
“This irrelevance of molecular arrangements for macroscopic results has given rise to the tendency to confine physics and chemistry to the study of homogeneous systems as well as homogeneous classes. In statistical mechanics a great deal of labor is in fact spent on showing that homogeneous systems and homogeneous classes are closely related and to a considerable extent interchangeable concepts of theoretical analysis (Gibbs theory). Naturally, this is not an accident. The methods of physics and chemistry are ideally suited for dealing with homogeneous classes with their interchangeable components. But experience shows that the objects of biology are radically inhomogeneous both as systems (structurally) and as classes (generically). Therefore, the method of biology and, consequently, its results will differ widely from the method and results of physical science.”
― Atom and Organism: A New Aproach to Theoretical Biology
― Atom and Organism: A New Aproach to Theoretical Biology

“Willard Gibbs is the type of the imagination at work in the world. His story is that of an opening up which has had its effect on our lives and our thinking; and, it seems to me, it is the emblem of the naked imagination —which is called abstract and impractical, but whose discoveries can be used by anyone who is interested, in whatever 'field'— an imagination which for me, more than that of any other figure in American thought, any poet, or political, or religious figure, stands for imagination at its essential points.”
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