Biology Quote by Erwin Schrodinger

The organism feeds on negative entropy.

— Erwin Schrodinger

The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.

— James Gleick

“To maintain order and structure in an evolving system requires the continual supply and use of energy whose by-product is disorder. That’s why to…

— Geoffrey West

Life, this anti-entropy, ceaselessly reloaded with energy, is a climbing force, toward order amidst chaos, toward light, among the darkness of the indefinite, toward…

— Albert Claude

'Entropy' broadly means tending towards chaos constantly.

— Sid Sriram

Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most…

— Claude Bernard

“Humans are organisms, subject to physical laws, including, alas, the one that says entropy always increases. Diseases are molecules misbehaving; the basic requirement of…

— Paul Kalanithi

In the complex course of its evolution, life exhibits a remarkable contrast to the tendency expressed in the Second Law to Thermodynamics. Where the…

— J. H. Rush

“We all behave like Maxwell’s demon. Organisms organize. In everyday experience lies the reason sober physicists across two centuries kept this cartoon fantasy alive.…

— James Gleick

Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“It is very desirable to have a word to express the Availability for work of the heat in a given magazine; a term for…

— Peter Guthrie Tait

Entropy makes things fall, but life ingeniously rigs the game so that when they do they often fall into place.

— John Tooby