Air Quote by Ludwig Boltzmann

“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

“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

“Life energy exists in animate and inanimate things.”

— Sanchita Pandey

“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

There cannot be creation without a lot of energy.

— Emil Nolde

“Living forms are not in being, they are happening, they are the expression of a perpetual stream of matter and energy which passes through…

— Bertalanffy Ludwig Von

“Life is easy to identify but remarkably difficult to define. Too tight a definition excludes what looks like life and too loose captures too…

— Peter Atkins

No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it.

— Philip K. Dick

The organism feeds on negative entropy.

— 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 whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs, combines, and…

— Humphry Davy

“Abundance is the unobstructed movement of life’s energy”

— Donna Goddard