Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the… — Damian Conway Copy Share Image
Once everyone is connected to everyone and everything else, nothing matters anymore. If everyone in the world is your Facebook friend, then… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
There are two ways to look at life. The first view is that nothing stays the same and that nothing is inherently… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“Humans are organisms, subject to physical laws, including, alas, the one that says entropy always increases. Diseases are molecules misbehaving; the basic… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
Death is not necessarily what gives meaning to life LIFE gives meaning to life, and what we do with life, which is… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
The arrow of time doesn't move forward forever. There's a phase in the history of the universe where you go from low… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
“The law that entropy always increases, holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. … if your theory is… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“Artists are agents of chaos. It is the artists job to encourage entropy, to promote chaos. Idols must be killed, icons crushed,… — Jonathan Culver Copy Share Image
“The entropy of the hot radiation she observes as a result of her acceleration turns out to be exactly proportional to the… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of… — Haven Kimmel Copy Share Image
The story of the universe finally comes to an end. For the first time in its life, the universe will be permanent… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
“The law that entropy always increases holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. If someone points out to… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I mean, I don’t know how the world broke. And I don’t know if there’s a God who can help us fix… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
You may see a cup of tea fall off a table and break into pieces on the floor... But you will never… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air water &… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
The fact that you can remember yesterday but not tomorrow is because of entropy. The fact that you're always born young and… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
Revolution is everywhere, in everything. It is infinite. There is no final revolution, no final number. The social revolution is only one… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Since a given system can never of its own accord go over into another equally probable state but into a more probable… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
Professor Eddington has recently remarked that 'The law that entropy always increases - the second law of thermodynamics - holds, I think,… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy.… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
Technology is the means by which we have decommissioned natural selection and are seizing control. We are no longer to be victims… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
“Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased—thus do we refute entropy." Stated another way: "Just as there are Laws of Conservation of… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
I'm trying to understand cosmology, why the Big Bang had the properties it did. And it's interesting to think that connects directly… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
“A law in physics, called the second law of thermodynamics, says that entropy, or chaos (the opposite of growth…a winding-down process), increases… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
Systems program building is an entropy-decreasing process, hence inherently metastable. Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would… — Moby Copy Share Image
Consciousness, when it's unburdened by the body, is something that's ecstatic; we use the mind to watch the mind, and that's the… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Stars looking at our planet, watching entropy and pain and maybe startin' to wonder how the chaos in our lives could pass… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
“Oceans recede and coastlines wither and crack. Nations lapse; others soon swagger in their places. Mountains crumble to dust, rains vanish into… — J. Aleksandr Wootton Copy Share Image
Consciousness, when its unburdened by the body, is something thats ecstatic; we use the mind to watch the mind, and thats the… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
The flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow… But someone must see this already today, and speak heretically today about… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
![“[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of orderliness (= fairly low level of entropy) really consists in continually sucking orderliness from its environment.” quote by Erwin Schrodinger](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1e6/erwin-schrodinger-8450_biology_a-living-organism-feeds-upon-negative-en_1038869.jpg)
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