The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium. — Rudolf Clausius Copy Share Image
Instead of focusing on the work, you focus on the entropy and the chaos and you get a byproduct. — Ben Chestnut Copy Share Image
The powerful notion of entropy, which comes from a very special branch of physics … is certainly useful in the study of… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Use "entropy" and you can never lose a debate, von Neumann told Shannon - because no one really knows what "entropy" is. — William Poundstone 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
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
Whether you have a leadership title or not, you have the potential to either lead your organization beyond all expectations or inhibit… — Simon T. Bailey Copy Share Image
The total disorder in the universe, as measured by the quantity that physicists call entropy, increases steadily over time. Also, the total… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“The only thing constantly changing is change The living only become dead Your hair falling out Your liver swelled up Your teeth… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. It seems almost as if progress itself and our fight… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
We form cities in order to enhance interaction, to facilitate growth, wealth creation, ideas, innovation, but in so doing, we create from… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“This is another way in which he is an admirable person. If he notices something is broken, he will try to fix… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
We all have those times in relationships, whether it's work or personal or family or whatever it is, where there's something that's… — Bob Mould Copy Share Image
If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations-then so much the… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
The aggressive incoherence of our common surroundings can be described as entropy made visible. The way we have disposed things on the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“One thing seems certain. Our galaxy is now in the brief springtime of its life—a springtime made glorious by such brilliant blue-white… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow… — Craig Clevenger Copy Share Image
“It will be noticed that the fundamental theorem proved above bears some remarkable resemblances to the second law of thermodynamics. Both are… — Ronald A. Fisher Copy Share Image
In the complex course of its evolution, life exhibits a remarkable contrast to the tendency expressed in the Second Law to Thermodynamics.… — J. H. Rush Copy Share Image
Aging is a staircase - the upward ascension of the human spirit, bringing us into wisdom, wholeness and authenticity. As you may… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Harmonising your biological rhythms with the rhythms of nature minimises entropy and reverses aging. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Information...exhausts itself in the staging of meaning...[and leads] not at all to a surfeit of innovation but to the very contrary, to… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
You should never be surprised by or feel the need to explain why any physical system is in a high entropy state. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
In an expanding universe, order is not really order, but merely the difference between the actual entropy exhibited and the maximum entropy… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show… — George Gilder 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
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
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
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
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