Biology Quote by Erwin Schrodinger

[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level…

— Erwin Schrodinger

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

— James Gleick

“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

“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

“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

Entropy increases. Things fall apart.

— John Green

“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

“the entropy of an isolated system never decreases,”

— Max Tegmark

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

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

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

Entropy is the price of structure.

— Ilya Prigogine