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Quotes About Entropy

Wszystko, co z?o?one, skazane jest na rozpad.
~ Unknown
there is a natural tendency for something that is ordered to become disordered as time goes by. In contrast, something that is disordered is highly unlikely to order itself without any additional help.
~ Unknown
In a system which is not in equilibrium, or in part of such a system, entropy need not increase. It may, in fact, decrease locally. Perhaps this non-equilibrium of the world about us is merely a stage in a downhill course which will ultimately lead to equilibrium. Sooner or later we shall die, and it is highly probable that the whole universe around us will die the heat death, in which the world shall be reduced to one vast temperature equilibrium in which nothing really new ever happens
~ Norbert Wiener
Entropy, the idea that the natural flow of heat is from something hot to something cool - not the other way - so that the universe itself is cooling down, running down, dissipating its energy.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Their clothes have become transparent, so she watches them wed entropy. Our bodies are poor, dirty, grist—without exception—for the mill.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
What the myth of Götterdämmerung signified of old, the irreligious form of it, the theory of Entropy, signifies to-day—world's end as completion of an inwardly necessary evolution.
~ Oswald Spengler
[Chaos] A rough, unordered mass of things.
~ Ovid
El motor último del capitalismo no es, por tanto, la sed de ganancia ni ningún otro deseo humano, sino el desarrollo en cuanto entropía negativa. "El desarrollo no es un invento de los seres humanos. Los seres humanos son un invento del desarrollo" [Lyotard "Une fable postmoderne", en Moralités postmodernes pp. 86-87]
~ Unknown
You cannot fight entropy.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
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
It is the epitome of entropy, the final enemy of all things.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
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
Yet, in the end, entropy will always emerge victorious, snuffing out the very last glimmer of heat and light. After that there is only darkness. When that state is reached even eternity will cease to exist, for one moment will be like every other and nothingness will claim the universe.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Out of twinkling stardust all came, into dark matter all will fall. Death mocks us as we laugh defiance at entropy, yet ignorance birthed mortals sail forth upon time's cruel sea.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Time travel is pure bullshit, impossible; nobody can defeat causality or entropy.
~ Peter F. Hamilton