Entropy Quotes
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The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.
— Stephen Hawking
Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.
— Philip K. Dick
The total energy of the universe is constant; the total entropy is continually increasing.
— Rudolf Clausius
Thinking generates entropy.")
— James Gleick
No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it.
— Philip K. Dick
According to Lamarck, there was a force - the 'power of life' - that pushed organisms to become increasingly complex.
— Elizabeth Kolbert
Lisa cried until there was nothing left to cry about.
— Joshua Edward Smith
Shared pain is lessened.Shared joy is increased.
Thus we refute entropy. — Spider Robinson
Jacob's room is the place entropy goes to die.
— Jodi Picoult
You should never be surprised by or feel the need to explain why any physical system is in a high entropy state.
— Brian Greene
Instead of focusing on the work, you focus on the entropy and the chaos and you get a byproduct.
— Ben Chestnut
The organism feeds on negative entropy.
— Erwin Schrodinger
The energy of the universe is constant.
— Rudolf Clausius
Harmonising your biological rhythms with the rhythms of nature minimises entropy and reverses aging.
— Deepak Chopra
Suck it, Entropy. We have an appointment, my old friend, but not today.
— Colson Whitehead
Entropy is the price of structure.
— Ilya Prigogine
Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)
— Brandon Sanderson
Human says time goes by -Time says human goes by — Anonymous
In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not there if you want to keep writing good code. — Karl Lehenbauer
Things fall apart, even when you think they're stronger than anything you could ever imagine.
— Susane Colasanti
History shows that people are as changeable as rivers.
— Andres Neuman
It will all stop someday, but not for billions of years. Many billions. Even the stars run down, you know. Entropy must increase.
— Isaac Asimov
QUESTION: Who governs the governors?ANSWER: Entropy. — Frank Herbert
I'm a human entropy producer.
— Dean Kamen
Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.
— Michael Ende
So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.
— Arthur Eddington
The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.
— James Howard Kunstler
So the second law is merely probabilistic. Statistically, everything tends toward maximum entropy.
— James Gleick
The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium.
— Rudolf Clausius
The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.
— James Gleick
The universe is full of fuel.
— Anthony Doerr
Use "entropy" and you can never lose a debate, von Neumann told Shannon - because no one really knows what "entropy" is.
— William Poundstone
Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of information.
— Hans Christian Von Baeyer
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.
— Derrick Jensen
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Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy") — Yevgeny Zamyatin
The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.
— Robert Smithson
The universe is based on sullen entropy;It falls apart as it goes on — Robyn Hitchcock
For once, entropy was on my side.
— Anonymous
like all material things, they were not immune to the corruptions of Time and its patient, unsleeping servant, Entropy.
— Arthur C. Clarke
We're constantly moving dust from one place to another, only to have it replaced by more dust - entropy always wins.
— Pablo Picasso
There are foods that accelerate aging and entropy, and others that renew and revitalise the body.
— Deepak Chopra
Stupid entropy ruins everything.
— Jennifer Ouellette
First law: The energy of the universe is constant. Second law: The entropy of the universe always increases.
— James Gleick
You can disappear here without knowing it.
— Bret Easton Ellis
Thought interferes with the probability of events, and, in the long run therefore, with entropy. - David L. Watson
— James Gleick
It is the epitome of entropy, the final enemy of all things.
— Peter F. Hamilton
Humans are organisms, subject to physical laws, including, alas, the one that says entropy always increases.
— Paul Kalanithi
Entropy is a bitch,
— Dan Simmons
Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.
— Spider Robinson
You cannot fight entropy.
— Peter F. Hamilton
The story of the Kelly system is a story of secrets - or if you prefer, a story of entropy.
— William Poundstone
Von Neumann told Shannon to call his measure entropy, since no one knows what entropy is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.
— Jeremy Campbell
Entropy increases. Things fall apart.
— John Green
Entropy makes things fall, but life ingeniously rigs the game so that when they do they often fall into place.
— John Tooby
I think I have this field around me that makes electronics work bad. It's not like an entropy thing; it happens very quickly.
— Cary Fukunaga
This universe and all it is connected with will come to an end. Entropy carries us towards the inevitable omega point, that is why entropy exists.
— Peter F. Hamilton
For Wiener, entropy was a measure of disorder; for Shannon, of uncertainty. Fundamentally, as they were realizing, these were the same.
— James Gleick
One of the main purpose of art has ever been that of making its indispensable contribution to the growth of entropy of the universal stupidity.
— William C. Brown
Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.
— Alfred Bester
Only entropy comes easy.
— Anton Chekhov
Once I got home, I sulked for a while. All my brilliant plans foiled by thermodynamics. Damn you, Entropy!
— Andy Weir
This must be the sixth realm, the nameless void. Entropy is the only lord here. We will all bow down before him in the end.
— Peter F. Hamilton
How do you say, 'Do things for me without me asking you to' since in saying that, you are asking them?
— Joshua Edward Smith
Death, decay, entropy, and destruction are the true suspensions of God's laws; miracles are the early glimpses of restoration.
— Philip Yancey
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
— Norman Ralph Augustine
Creativity is our only weapon against entropy
— Dean Cavanagh