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- Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as… — Jacques Monod
- One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight interruption in… — Aldous Huxley
- In high school, when I first heard of entropy, I was attracted to it immediately. They said that in nature all systems… — George Carlin
- [A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly… — Erwin Schrodinger
- Life, this anti-entropy, ceaselessly reloaded with energy, is a climbing force, toward order amidst chaos, toward light, among the darkness of the… — Albert Claude
- Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it… — Rudolf Arnheim
- Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the… — Rudolf Arnheim
- It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that… — Gilbert N. Lewis
- The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air water &… — Ludwig Boltzmann
- Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics… — Stephen Hawking
- Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy. — Spider Robinson