Murphy's law

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Meaning

humorous axiom stating that anything that can go wrong will go wrong

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With diligent effort he has established that there is no statistical basis for Murphy's Law. He has also established that he believes in it anyway. John Barnes

We do all of our work in consideration of Murphy's Law. John Stapp

Author Arthur Bloch has compiled a number of books full of corollaries to Murphy's law and variations thereof. Source: Internet

As for himself he realized that this was the inexorable working of the second law of the thermodynamics which stated Murphy's law ‘If anything can go wrong it will’." Source: Internet

Despite extensive research, no trace of documentation of the saying as Murphy's law has been found before 1951 (see above). Source: Internet

Hand, pp. 197-198 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). Source: Internet

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