Explain that in terms a third grader could understand.
OK. Here are the first, second, and third laws of thermodynamics, expressed in language a third-grader can understand.
1. You can't win.
2. You can't break even.
3. You can't get out of the game.
From HowToGAMIT, MIT's guide for incoming freshman, 1974 edition.
It was an occasion for a Democritus, nay, for an Epicurus or a Metrodorus, perhaps, a man whose intelligence was steeled against such assaults by skepticism and insight, one who, if he could not detect the precise imposture, would at any rate have been perfectly certain that, though this escaped him, the whole thing was a lie and an impossibility.
from Alexander the Oracle Monger, by Lucian, 180 A.D.