Quotes About Entropy

Just like a wine glass breaking, or a car rusting, the entropy of a closed system will always increase with time.

The particular aspect of time that I'm interested in is the arrow of time: the fact that the past is different from the future. We remember the past but we don't remember the future. There are irreversible processes. There are things that happen, like you turn an egg into an omelet, but you can't turn an omelet into an egg.

Every time a bit of information is erased, we know it doesn't disappear. It goes out into the environment. It may be horribly scrambled and confused, but it never really gets lost. It's just converted into a different form.

What the Second Law indeed states, roughly speaking, is that things are getting more 'random' all the time.

Second Law of thermodynamics is not an equality, but an inequality, asserting merely that a certain quantity referred to as the entropy of an isolated system—which is a measure of the system's disorder, or 'randomness'—is greater (or at least not smaller) at later times than it was at earlier times.

Conservatism, as I understand it, means the maintenance of the social ecology. Individual freedom is certainly a part of that ecology, since without it social organisms cannot adapt. But freedom is not the sole or the true goal of politics. Conservatism involves the conservation of our shared resources – social, material, economic and spiritual – and resistance to social entropy in all its forms.

As a student of business administration, I know that there is a law of evolution for organizations as stringent and inevitable as anything in life. The longer one exists, the more it grinds out restrictions that slow its own functions. It reaches entropy in a state of total narcissism. Only the people sufficiently far out in the field get anything done, and every time they do they are breaking half a dozen rules in the process.

Each day recapitulates the history of the world, coming up out of darkness and cold into confused light and beginning warmth, consciousness blinking its eyes somewhere in midmorning, awakening thoughts a jumble of illogic and unattached emotion, and all speeding together toward the order of moontide, the slow poignant decline of dusk, the mystical vision of twilight, the end of entropy that is night once more.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be changed from one form to another.

One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe. But in fact one's merely a slight delay in the ongoing march of entropy.

En cambio, la vida del contemplativo, del chamán, del santo, de las comunidades ecológicas y de algunos grupos indígenas reflejan la acción anti entrópica del atractor extraño del futuro ideal del hipercampo sobre sujetos capaces de vivir en estados de alta sintergia. Estos últimos reciben una influencia hipercámpica que los acerca a la unidad, trascendiendo la influencia repulsiva de la lattice.

La más elevada función de liderazgo consiste en transformar la repulsión entrópica de la lattice en atracción antientrópica del atractor extraño del futuro ideal del hipercampo. Un cerebro en un estado de elevada correlación interhemisférica incrementa la coherencia del hipercampo y de la lattice y es capaz de afectar los campos neuronales individuales en la misma dirección. Su

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

Life is death in slow motion.

Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.

The universe gets more disorderly all the time.

It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from the best of visions. The world becomes grayer. Entropy beats us down. Everything fades. Everything goes. Everything dies.

Everything is a burned book, my dear maestro. Music, the tenth dimension, the fourth dimension, cradles, the production of bullets and rifles, Westerns: all burned books.

No matter how great and glorious the making, time will unmake it. No matter how strong the word, strong the thought, strong the law, all must return to chaos.

From the moment it is born, from the moment it is built, everything is always dying, decaying, drifting into chaos.

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

The entropy of a closed system never decreases. Every process must by law decay.

The entropy of a closed system never decreases.

total entropy of any system, said Dr. Hauptmann, will decrease only if the entropy of another system will increase. Nature demands symmetry.