Biological science Quote by Ronald Fisher

“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 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

“The law that entropy always increases holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. If someone points out to you that…

— Arthur Eddington

“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

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

“Evolution presupposes an innate tendency toward progress and increasing order and complexity in the universe, but the second law of thermodynamics proves there is…

— Dr. Henry Morris

Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as that enjoined…

— Jacques Monod

In the complex course of its evolution, life exhibits a remarkable contrast to the tendency expressed in the Second Law to Thermodynamics. Where the…

— J. H. Rush

The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.

— Robert Lanza

I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

— Rupert Sheldrake

There is nothing which Nature so clearly reveals, and upon which science so strongly insists, as the universal reign of law, absolute, universal, invariable…

— Joseph LeConte

“Another way to describe the Second Law is in terms of entropy, the degree of disorder and randomness in a system. Any spontaneous process…

— Walter Isaacson