In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not there if you want to keep writing… — Karl Lehenbauer 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
[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
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
“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
The increase of disorder or entropy with time is one example of what is called an arrow of time, something that distinguishes… — Stephen Hawking 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
I find the big bang, really quite fascinating. I mean, here you have all these highfalutin scientists and they're saying it was… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
“Time goes forward because energy itself is always moving from an available to an unavailable state. Our consciousness is continually recording the… — Jeremy Rifkin 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
All things tend toward entropy. The whole universe is moving outward, the stars pulling away from one another, God knows what falling… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Once I got home, I sulked for a while. All my brilliant plans foiled by thermodynamics. Damn you, Entropy! — Andy Weir 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
Entropy is one of the laws of thermodynamics. It's a physical law that says everything in nature is moving from order to… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
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
“Information, defined intuitively and informally, might be something like 'uncertainty's antidote.' This turns out also to be the formal definition- the amount… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“Aeonist teachings say that no race is clean of such ignorance or violence. When faced with the threat of such things, we… — Ruthanna Emrys 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
“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
Chaos comes before all principles of order & entropy, it's neither a god nor a maggot, its idiotic desires encompass & define… — Hakim Bey 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
“The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy,… — Brian Christian 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
Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2) — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight interruption in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image