Concerned Quote by Rudolf Arnheim

“Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Entropy is Janus-faced. Its upside surprises are redemptive and favorable to freedom. It is freedom of choice. But the carrier itself requires constant vigilance…

— George Gilder

Entropy is the price of structure.

— Ilya Prigogine

“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

I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

— Elon Musk

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

— James Gleick

In an expanding universe, order is not really order, but merely the difference between the actual entropy exhibited and the maximum entropy possible.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

'Entropy' broadly means tending towards chaos constantly.

— Sid Sriram

In any finite region of space, matter can only arrange itself in a finite number of configurations, just as a deck of cards can…

— Brian Greene

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

In far from equilibrium conditions, the concept of probability that underlies Boltzmann's order principle is no longer valid if the structures we observe do…

— Ilya Prigogine