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
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
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
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
“He had given her a copy of a recently published paper that held that the power of entropy weakens near the event… — Koji Suzuki 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
“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
An egg is a beautiful, sophisticated thing that can create even more sophisticated things, such as chickens. And we know in our… — David Christian Copy Share Image
Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are… — Rudolf Arnheim 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
I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen.… — Adam Rapp 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
[My] pictures are about memory and forgetfulness. The evidence is dissolving. Bones crumble; human ash returns to soil; teeth, sandals, hair, bullets,… — Simon Norfolk 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
“We all behave like Maxwell’s demon. Organisms organize. In everyday experience lies the reason sober physicists across two centuries kept this cartoon… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“In despair, I offer your readers their choice of the following definitions of entropy. My authorities are such books and journals as… — Sydney Herbert Evershed Copy Share Image
“Leo Szilard, in 1929, showed that the very act of acquiring information about a system increases its entropy in proportion to the… — Basil Mahon 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 is the normal state of consciousness—a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable. To avoid this condition, people are naturally eager… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. But there was now no man to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image