Architecture Quote by Philip K. Dick

Entropy is the price of structure.

— Ilya Prigogine

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

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

I am always fascinated by the structure of things; why do things work this way and not that way.

— Ursus Wehrli

“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

Matter and energy seem granular in structure, and so does “life”, but not so mind.

— Erwin Schrodinger

Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.

— Victor J. Stenger

Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.

— Albert Einstein

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.

— Peter Drucker

“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

Science does not emerge in some perfect, complete crystalline form.

— Jim Peebles

“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