Frustration with a strap which was malfunctioning due to an error in wiring the caused him to remark — "If there is any way to do it wrong, he will" — referring to the technician who had wired the bridges at the Lab | Murphy's Law: Lawyers: Wronging the Rights in the Legal Profession! |
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There have been persistent references to Murphy's law associating it with the laws of thermodynamics from early on see the quotation from Anne Roe's book above | Murphy is away, as in this formulation: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong while Murphy is out of town |
Shore 1994 , Mysteries of life and the universe, p | The Butcher: The Ascent of Yerupaja epigraph 1952 , reprinted in Shapiro, Fred R |
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The phrase was coined in adverse reaction to something Murphy said when his devices failed to perform and was eventually cast into its present form prior to a press conference some months later — the first ever of many given by Dr | It is found that anything that can go wrong at sea generally does go wrong sooner or later, so it is not to be wondered that owners prefer the safe to the scientific |
According to Robert Murphy's account, his father's statement was along the lines of "If there's more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then he will do it that way.
15The next citations are not found until 1955, when the May—June issue of Aviation Mechanics Bulletin included the line "Murphy's law: If an aircraft part can be installed incorrectly, someone will install it that way", and Lloyd Mallan's book, Men, Rockets and Space Rats, referred to: "Colonel Stapp's favorite takeoff on sober scientific laws—Murphy's law, Stapp calls it—'Everything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong' | I always liked 'Murphy's law' |
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, The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True, Simon and Schuster, 2012 | Chairman was quoted in the on February 12, 1955, saying "I hope it will be known as Strauss' law |
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