Quotes About Entropy

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

Every process must by law decay.

we can think of determinism as working backward as well as forward in time.

for godhood and the hope for mankind, and within each of us is the original sin of laziness, the ever-present force of entropy pushing us back to childhood, to the womb and to the swamps from which we have evolved.

And it is through our love for others that we assist others to elevate themselves. Love, the extension of the self, is the very act of evolution. It is evolution in progress. The evolutionary force, present in all of life, manifests itself in mankind as human love. Among humanity love is the miraculous force that defies the natural law of entropy.

Entropy is a term from physics that refers to the amount of disorder in a system.

While software development is immune from almost all physical laws, entropy hits us hard.

Unfortunately, the laws of thermodynamics guarantee that the entropy in the universe tends toward a maximum.

The sun is slowly dying, the spiral arm spreading, the molecules drifting apart second by second towards our inevitable heat death- shouldn't we all wail to the stars?

Information is a measure of uncertainty reduced.

Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.

But meanwhile my store-bought arteries were slowly hardening, and every day six thousand cells were dying in my irreplaceable brain; and meanwhile stars slowed in their flight and the universe dragged itself toward its ultimate entropic death, and meanwhile - Meanwhile everything, if you stopped to think of it, was skidding downhill. And I never gave any of it a thought.

The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy.

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

'Entropy' will be a kaleidoscope of thought processes and my identity as an Indian who grew up in California.

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them. Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.

Heat cannot of itself pass from a colder to a hotter body.

The Second Law of Thermodynamics: If you think things are in a mess now, just wait!

The increase of disorder or entropy with time is one example of what is called an arrow of time, something that distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.

The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future.

... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.

Heat can never pass from a colder to a warmer body without some other change, connected therewith, occurring at the same time.

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.