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
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
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. — Norman Ralph Augustine 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
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
“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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“What I have said about the newspapers and the movies applies equally to the radio, to television, and even to bookselling. Thus… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
We are, in fact, hyper-dimentional objects of some sort which cast a shadow into matter, and the shadow in matter is the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“It is very desirable to have a word to express the Availability for work of the heat in a given magazine; a… — Peter Guthrie Tait 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“One thinks one’s something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe. But in fact one’s merely a slight delay in… — Aldous Huxley 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
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
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
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
There are foods that accelerate aging and entropy, and others that renew and revitalise the body. — 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
Harmonising your biological rhythms with the rhythms of nature minimises entropy and reverses aging. — Deepak Chopra 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
One of the main purpose of art has ever been that of making its indispensable contribution to the growth of entropy of… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 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
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 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