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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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 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
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
“The entropy of the hot radiation she observes as a result of her acceleration turns out to be exactly proportional to the… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“Artists are agents of chaos. It is the artists job to encourage entropy, to promote chaos. Idols must be killed, icons crushed,… — Jonathan Culver Copy Share Image
![“Professor Eddington has recently remarked that 'The law that entropy always increases - the second law of thermodynamics - holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of nature'. It is not a little instructive that so similar a law [the fundamental theorem of natural selection] should hold…” quote by Ronald Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba5/ronald-fisher-14852_biological-science_professor-eddington-has-recently-remarke_3010389.jpg)
![“Information, defined intuitively and informally, might be something like 'uncertainty's antidote.' This turns out also to be the formal definition- the amount of information comes from the amount by which something reduces uncertainty...The higher the [information] entropy, the more information…” quote by Brian Christian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd4/brian-christian-10142_data_information-defined-intuitively-and-info_1248812.jpg)
