The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air water & soil, all abundantly available, nor for energy which exists in plenty in the sun and any hot body… — 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
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
It must be splendid to command millions of people in great national ventures, to lead a hundred thousand to victory in battle. But it… — Ludwig Boltzmann 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 one, it… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
In my view all salvation for philosophy may be expected to come from Darwin's theory — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
