"The history of life is written in terms…" — James Gleick
"The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy."
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70 Quotes by James Gleick
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For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must…
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You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment....
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Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It…
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Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.
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Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.
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The universe is computing its own destiny.
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It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.
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Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds…
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Tiny differences in input could quickly become overwhelming differences in output.... In weather, for example, this translates into what is…
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Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant.
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The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for…
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Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the…
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More Entropy Quotes
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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…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the…
— Jacques Monod
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One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight…
— Aldous Huxley
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In high school, when I first heard of entropy, I was attracted to it immediately. They said that in nature…
— George Carlin
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[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at…
— Erwin Schrodinger
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Life, this anti-entropy, ceaselessly reloaded with energy, is a climbing force, toward order amidst chaos, toward light, among the darkness…
— Albert Claude
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Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure.…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the…
— Gilbert N. Lewis
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The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air…
— Ludwig Boltzmann
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Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law…
— Stephen Hawking
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Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.
— Spider Robinson
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