Entropy Quote by James Gleick Download Open image “The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.” — James Gleick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Entropy History Life Life is Life Written Negative Negative Entropy Term Terms Negative
Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be… — Vaclav Havel 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
Entropy makes things fall, but life ingeniously rigs the game so that when they do they often fall into place. — John Tooby Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[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
I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
“We exist with or without God. We are the inevitable result of entropy. Life is not the point of the universe. Life is simply… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“People come into our lives and then they go out again. The entropy law, as applied to human relations. Sometimes in their passing, though,… — David Quammen 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
“A law in physics, called the second law of thermodynamics, says that entropy, or chaos (the opposite of growth…a winding-down process), increases over time.… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they identified it… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder, which seems… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“No one has even a definitive spelling for Cawdrey’s name (Cowdrey, Cawdry). But then, no one agreed on the spelling of most names: they… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Where, then, is any particular gene—say, the gene for long legs in humans? This is a little like asking where is Beethoven’s Piano Sonata… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Alphabetical order had to be invented to help people organize the first dictionaries. On the other hand, we may have reached a point where… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
A book is not necessarily made of paper. A book is not necessarily made to be read on a Kindle. A book is a… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“From this point of view, the laws of science represent data compression in action. A theoretical physicist acts like a very clever coding algorithm.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child at play… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Your body moves always in the present, the dividing line between the past and the future, but your mind is more free. It can… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
People worry about Twitter. Twitter is banal. It's 140-character messages. By definition, you can hardly say anything profound. On the other hand, we communicate.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Entropy is the normal state of consciousness—a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable. To avoid this condition, people are naturally eager to fill… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Systems program building is an entropy-decreasing process, hence inherently metastable. Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Entropy The Disintegrating Integration of Cheez-Whiz Squirts Insipid Inspiration Quoth the Oblong Eclipse of Nether-Knowledge Never Knowing Decaying Matter in a Decaying Orbit Orangutans… — Ubiquitous Bubba Copy Share Image
“What I have said about the newspapers and the movies applies equally to the radio, to television, and even to bookselling. Thus we are… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
What's important is how we use our time on this earth, not how conspicuously we give our money away. What's important is the energy… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder, which seems… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“One thing seems certain. Our galaxy is now in the brief springtime of its life—a springtime made glorious by such brilliant blue-white stars as… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
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