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Full Idea
Anything can be more speedily disintegrated than put together again.
Gist of Idea
It is quicker to break things up than to assemble them
Source
Lucretius (On the Nature of the Universe [c.60 BCE], I.558)
Book Ref
Lucretius: 'On the Nature of the Universe', ed/tr. Latham,Ronald [Penguin 1951], p.43
A Reaction
Clearly the concept of entropy was around long before anyone tried to give a systematic or mathematical account of it.