Quotes About Order

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

the brain does not own any direct copies of stuff in the world. There is no library of forms and ideas against which to compare the images of perception. Information is stored in a plastic way, allowing fantastic juxtapositions and leaps of imagination. Some chaos exists out there, and the brain seems to have more flexibility than classical physics in finding the order in it.

So the second law is merely probabilistic. Statistically, everything tends toward maximum entropy.

We are swimming upstream against a great torrent of disorganization, which tends to reduce everything to the heat death of equilibrium and sameness.… This heat death in physics has a counterpart in the ethics of Kierkegaard, who pointed out that we live in a chaotic moral universe. In this, our main obligation is to establish arbitrary enclaves of order and system.… Like the Red Queen, we cannot stay where we are without running as fast as we can.

Here was one coin with two sides. Here was order, with randomness emerging, and then one step further away was randomness with its own underlying order.

Thought interferes with the probability of events, and, in the long run therefore, with entropy. —David L. Watson

The second law, then, is the tendency of the universe to flow from less likely (orderly) to more likely (disorderly) macrostates.

The Mandelbrot set obeys an extraordinarily precise scheme leaving nothing to chance whatsoever. I strongly suspect that the day somebody actually figures out how the brain is organized they will discover to their amazement that there is a coding scheme for building the brain which is of extraordinary precision. The idea of randomness in biology is just reflex.

Within the most disorderly reams of data lived an unexpected kind of order. Given the arbitrariness of the numbers he was examining, why, Mandelbrot asked himself, should any law hold at all? And why should it apply equally well to personal incomes and cotton prices?

This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.

Cognitive neuroscience, and social theorists from Weber to Bourdieu, have recognized that humans act, most of the time, habitually, not reflectively. Both at intrastate and inter-states levels, habits play critical roles in mitigating uncertainty, providing a sense of order, and entrench patterns of cooperation or enmity.

The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.

We, as a people, we have a strong need to categorize everything. We put labels on everything and it's a totally understandable need because we are animals and we need to understand order and where to fit in.

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.

In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of a natural order.

I don't iron my underwear and socks, but I like things to be organised.

Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is.

The exuberance of democracy leads to undisciplined and disorderly conditions which are inimical to development.

All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?

One of the evidences of wisdom is order.

The line between the allure of liberty and the menace of of anarchy is often blurred." From: Caspian Diary

The ideas of the moral order and of God belong to the ineradicable substrate of the human soul.