antedating of "Murphy's law" May, 1951

[Shapiro, Fred]

Even better!

Fred Shapiro



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Genetic Psychology Monographs: Child Behavior, Animal Behavior, and
Comparative
Psychology.
A Psychological Study of Physical Scientists, By Anne Roe, pp. 121-235
p.204
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." I always liked Murphy's law, I was told that by an architect.

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson

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