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
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
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
You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under… — John Von Neumann 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
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
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
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
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
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
“People come into our lives and then they go out again. The entropy law, as applied to human relations. Sometimes in their… — David Quammen 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
“He saw two stars collapse against one another and a nova form; it flared up and then, as he watched, it began… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Too bad. And Mozart, not long after writing The Magic Flute, had died--in his thirties--of kidney disease. And had been buried in… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Franz said 'Your picture, Viki, suggests that sense of breaking-up we feel in the modern world. Families, nations, classes, other loyalty groups… — Fritz Leiber 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
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
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
You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder,… — James Gleick 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
Entropy is Janus-faced. Its upside surprises are redemptive and favorable to freedom. It is freedom of choice. But the carrier itself requires… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“Entropy The Disintegrating Integration of Cheez-Whiz Squirts Insipid Inspiration Quoth the Oblong Eclipse of Nether-Knowledge Never Knowing Decaying Matter in a Decaying… — Ubiquitous Bubba Copy Share Image
The fundamental laws of the universe which correspond to the two fundamental theorems of the mechanical theory of heat. 1. The energy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“(I also believe that the most meaningful change, where individuals can triumph over both entropy and evolution as it were, comes when… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“You believe in entropy, which postulates that all phenomena tend to sink to lower levels of organization and energy, and in evolution,… — Mark Helprin 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
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
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
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
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
“Mike Rother says that it almost doesn’t matter what you improve, as long as you’re improving something. Why? Because if you are… — Gene Kim 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 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
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
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
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
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
