Entropy Quotes

74 quotes by 60 authors

It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe. — James Gleick
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought. — Yevgeny Zamyatin
The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible. — James Howard Kunstler
If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy… — Walter Lang
Question: Who governs the governors? Answer: Entropy — Frank Herbert
The total disorder in the universe, as measured by the quantity that physicists call entropy, increases steadily over time. Also, the total order in the… — Freeman Dyson
So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone. — Arthur Eddington
The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum. — Rudolf Clausius
Entropy is one of the laws of thermodynamics. It's a physical law that says everything in nature is moving from order to disorder. In our… — Jon Foreman
Death is not necessarily what gives meaning to life LIFE gives meaning to life, and what we do with life, which is to create knowledge… — Jason Silva
I think we defy entropy and impermanence with our films and our poems. We hold onto each other a little harder and say, 'I will… — Jason Silva
Whether you have a leadership title or not, you have the potential to either lead your organization beyond all expectations or inhibit its growth through… — Simon T. Bailey
I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would grow up, squirrels… — Moby
Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are… — Graham Joyce
Once I got home, I sulked for a while. All my brilliant plans foiled by thermodynamics. Damn you, Entropy! — Andy Weir
This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is the way of… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Only entropy comes easy. — Anton Chekhov
One of the main purpose of art has ever been that of making its indispensable contribution to the growth of entropy of the universal stupidity. — William C. Brown
We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography. — Michael Polanyi
It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.… — George Gilder

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