Back together Quote by Stephen Hawking

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

The increase of disorder or entropy with time is one example of what is called an arrow of time, something that distinguishes the past…

— Stephen Hawking

Or in other words, why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands?

— Stephen Hawking

Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.

— Stephen Hawking

So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.

— Arthur Eddington

The irreversibility of time is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos.

— Ilya Prigogine

“A law in physics, called the second law of thermodynamics, says that entropy, or chaos (the opposite of growth…a winding-down process), increases over time.…

— Henry Cloud

It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“If we start to look into the nature of the relationship between time and the dynamics of social exchange, we quickly discover that temporal…

— Izima Kaoru

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

— William Gibson

I am old enough to know that time passing is just a trick, a convenience. Everything is always there, still unfolding, still happening. The…

— Sebastian Barry