Noun
humorous axiom stating that anything that can go wrong will go wrong
Source: WordNetWith 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