Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2) — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
There are foods that accelerate aging and entropy, and others that renew and revitalise the body. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
If we assume there is no maximum possible entropy for the universe, then any state can be a state of low entropy. — Alan Guth Copy Share Image
“Mutual learning happens in the entropy; we need the confusion to release the new.” — Nora Bateson Copy Share Image
“Shared pain is lessened Shared joy is increased Thus do we refute entropy” — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
Entropy makes things fall, but life ingeniously rigs the game so that when they do they often fall into place. — John Tooby Copy Share Image
The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The story of the Kelly system is a story of secrets - or if you prefer, a story of entropy. — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
As someone fairly committed to the death of our solar system and ultimately the entropy of the universe, I think the question… — Bruce Hood Copy Share Image
It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that… — Gilbert N. Lewis 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
If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the… — Walter Lang Copy Share Image
The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
“Von Neumann told Shannon to call his measure entropy, since "no one knows what entropy is, so in a debate you will… — Jeremy Campbell Copy Share Image
In high school, when I first heard of entropy, I was attracted to it immediately. They said that in nature all systems… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
[My] pictures are about memory and forgetfulness. The evidence is dissolving. Bones crumble; human ash returns to soil; teeth, sandals, hair, bullets,… — Simon Norfolk Copy Share Image
Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The revelation we've come to is that we can trust our memories of a past with lower, not higher, entropy only if… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Of course, uh, the universe is gradually slowing down and, uh, will eventually collapse inwardly on itself, according to the laws of… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
“Entropy is the normal state of consciousness—a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable. To avoid this condition, people are naturally eager… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
An egg is a beautiful, sophisticated thing that can create even more sophisticated things, such as chickens. And we know in our… — David Christian Copy Share Image
If you find an egg in your refrigerator, you're not surprised. You don't say, 'Wow, that's a low-entropy configuration. That's unusual,' because… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen.… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
There are some things in the world we can't change- gravity, entropy, the speed of light, and our biological nature that requires… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
“It was under English trees that I meditated on that lost labyrinth: I pictured it perfect and inviolate on the secret summit… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. But there was now no man to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“We all behave like Maxwell’s demon. Organisms organize. In everyday experience lies the reason sober physicists across two centuries kept this cartoon… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“You are exporting disorder [in the form of heat into the Universe] now as you read this book. You are hastening the… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
“Leo Szilard, in 1929, showed that the very act of acquiring information about a system increases its entropy in proportion to the… — Basil Mahon Copy Share Image
It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe. — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Under the current high energy / high entropy regime, sustainable development is a joke. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
![“[My] pictures are about memory and forgetfulness. The evidence is dissolving. Bones crumble; human ash returns to soil; teeth, sandals, hair, bullets, axes disperse into atoms and molecules. Footprints in the snow will be erased by the next storm. The evidence of evil, like the evidence of good…” quote by Simon Norfolk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a3c/simon-norfolk-69071_ashes_my-pictures-are-about-memory-and-forgetf_262236.jpg)
![“You are exporting disorder [in the form of heat into the Universe] now as you read this book. You are hastening the demise of everything that exists, bringing forward by your very existence the arrival of time known as the heat death, when all stars have died, all black holes have evaporated away…” quote by Brian Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e0c/brian-cox-8883_astronomy_you-are-exporting-disorder-in-the-form-o_1157209.jpg)
