Always Quote by Sean M. Carroll

“People come into our lives and then they go out again. The entropy law, as applied to human relations. Sometimes in their passing, though,…

— David Quammen

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

— James Gleick

The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.

— Stephen Hawking

Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics almost trivial.…

— Stephen Hawking

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

— John Tooby

A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

Why is it that we are born remembering, and live forgetting?

— Elise M. Boulding

You may see a cup of tea fall off a table and break into pieces on the floor... But you will never see the…

— Stephen Hawking

Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping.…

— Gregory Maguire

We live with such easy assumptions, don't we? For instance, that memory equals events plus time. But it's all much odder than this. Who…

— Julian Barnes

So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care…

— Sue Grafton