Quotes About Disorder

Si lance was not quiet and calm, and it was not peace.

Films are all luck and anarchy.

Psychopathy is both a serious psychological disorder that threatens our individual happiness and a widespread social problem that threatens our entire civilization.

what he has found is a stubborn, overwhelming, and embarrassing degree of inconsistency in what we do.

This is someone who makes his living studying disorders of the brain and the nerves. Yet he could not make sense of his own condition.

The Greek word for 'everything that is the case', what we could call 'the universe', is COSMOS. And at the moment - although 'moment' is a time word and makes no sense just now (neither does the phrase 'just now') - at the moment, Cosmos is Chaos and only Chaos because Chaos is the only thing that is the case.

The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.

Or in other words, why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands?

Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.

At first, I believed that disorder would decrease when the universe recollapsed. This was because I thought that the universe had to return to a smooth and ordered state when it became small again. This would mean that the contracting phase would be like the time reverse of the expanding phase. People in the contracting phase would live their lives backward: they would die before they were born and get younger as the universe contracted.

you remember every word in this book, your memory will have recorded about two million pieces of information: the order in your brain will have increased by about two million units. However, while you have been reading the book, you will have converted at least a thousand calories of ordered energy, in the form of food, into disordered energy, in the form of heat that you lose to the air around you by convection and sweat.

why we should be in the expanding phase rather than the contracting phase? One can answer this on the basis of the weak anthropic principle. Conditions in the contracting phase would not be suitable for the existence of intelligent beings who could ask the question: why is disorder increasing in the same direction of time as that in which the universe is expanding?

Segunda ley de la termodinámica]. Según esta ley, el desorden o la entropía aumenta siempre con el tiempo. En otras palabras, se trata de una forma de la ley de Murphy: las cosas van a peor.

This says that in any closed system disorder, or entropy, always increases with time. In other words, it is a form of Murphy's law: things always tend to go wrong!

There are at least three different arrows of time. First, there is the thermodynamic arrow of time, the direction of time in which disorder or entropy increases. Then, there is the psychological arrow of time. This is the direction in which we feel time passes, the direction in which we remember the past but not the future. Finally, there is the cosmological arrow of time. This is the direction of time in which the universe is expanding rather than contracting.

Our subjective sense of the direction of time, the psychological arrow of time, is therefore determined within our brain by the thermodynamic arrow of time. Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics almost trivial. Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. You can't have a safer bet than that!

Hot?rârile noastre sunt adesea iraÈ›ionale sau se bazeaz? pe o analiz? incorect? a consecinÈ›elor alegerii. De aceea în lume e atâta dezordine.

It is a matter of common experience that things get more disordered and chaotic with time.

Le désordre augmente avec le temps parce que nous mesurons le temps dans la direction où le désordre augmente. Qui dit mieux ?

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Love knows nothing of order.

The important point is that the singular object that is the balloon strictly obeys the gas law because the orderly motion of its single continuous elastic surface arises from the disorderly motions of very large numbers of particles, generating, as Schrödinger put it, order from disorder.

Most persons with an autism-spectrum disorder have never expressed their opinions on someone's blog and never will. The neurodiverse often reach a vulnerable audience, as many persons on the spectrum have low self-esteem. Neurodiversity provides a tempting escape valve.

I'd hire an accountant or lawyer with an anxiety disorder over one without any day of the week.