Biology Quote by Paul Kalanithi

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

“Life may be chemistry, but it's a special circumstance of chemistry. Organisms exist not because of reactions that are possible, but because of reactions…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Professor Eddington has recently remarked that 'The law that entropy always increases - the second law of thermodynamics - holds, I think, the supreme…

— Ronald Fisher

“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

“The law that entropy always increases, holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. … if your theory is found to…

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

“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 is one of the most remarkable things that in all of the biological sciences there is no clue as to the necessity of…

— Ray Kurzweil

“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

“It will be noticed that the fundamental theorem proved above bears some remarkable resemblances to the second law of thermodynamics. Both are properties of…

— Ronald A. Fisher

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

— James Gleick

“That in every life, without exception, illnesses are unavoidable. That we will age, and that we cannot elude death. These are the laws and…

— Jan-Philipp Sendker

Entropy makes things fall, but life ingeniously rigs the game so that when they do they often fall into place.

— John Tooby