The most ordinary things are to philosophy a source of insoluble puzzles. With infinite ingenuity it constructs a concept of space or time and then finds it absolutely impossible that there be objects in this space or that processes occur… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
Thermodynamics, correctly interpreted, does not just allow Darwinian evolution; it favors it. — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air water & soil, all… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
The life contest is primarily a competition for available energy. — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
To go straight to the deepest depth, I went for Hegel; what unclear thoughtless flow of words I was to find there! My unlucky… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of state; from… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few bars, Mozart,… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
Philosophy gets on my nerves. If we analyze the ultimate ground of everything, then everything finally falls into nothingness. But I have decided to… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
Which is more remarkable fact about America: that millionaires are idealists or idealists become millionaires. — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world. — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
Bring forward what is true, Write it so that it is clear, Defend it to your last breath! — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
Bring forth what is true; Write it so it it's clear. Defend it to your last breath. — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
