Biology Quote by Erwin Schrodinger Download Open image “The organism feeds on negative entropy.” — Erwin Schrodinger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biology Entropy Negative Organisms
[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“It has been pointed out by Boltzmann that the fundamental object of contention in the life-struggle, in the evolution of the organic world, is… — Nick Gogerty Copy Share Image
Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as that enjoined… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In high school, when I first heard of entropy, I was attracted to it immediately. They said that in nature all systems are breaking… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon mother earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world.... Nature does not act… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
If all this damned quantum jumping were really here to stay, I should be sorry, I should be sorry I ever got involved with… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period. — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question. Science has no answer to it. — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears. — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient. It gives a lot of factual information,… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all. — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
“I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth.… — Erwin Schrödinger Copy Share Image
Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found in the world-picture, because it itself is the world-picture. — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves. — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
“Toshiaki learned that all living organisms were governed by their DNA. He was impressed by perfection of this system.Why did existence have the ability… — Hideaki Sena Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me. — Roger Spottiswoode Copy Share Image
Biochemists and biologists who adhere blindly to the Darwinism theory search for results that will be in agreement with their theories and consequently orient… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
“A note of caution: epigenetics is also on the verge of transforming into a dangerous idea. Epigenetic modifications of genes can potentially superpose historical… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely to be… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
We are coming to a place where the road ends. From here on out, we will be making the road as we walk it,… — Tom Atlee Copy Share Image