Quotes About Disorder

It isn't true, as is sometimes stated, that life generates structures that are particularly ordered, or that locally diminish entropy: it is simply a process that degrades and consumes the low entropy of food; it is a self-structured disordering, no more and no less than in the rest of the universe.

The growth of entropy is nothing other than the ubiquitous and familiar natural increase of disorder. This is what Boltzmann understood.

The difference between past and future does not lie in the elementary laws of motion; it does not reside in the deep grammar of nature. It is the natural disordering that leads to gradually less particular, less special situations.

My mental flowchart was a mess.

revisions in this second edition of The Out-of-Sync Child reflect Dr. Miller's work. Her wonderful book, Sensational Kids: Hope and Help for Children with Sensory Processing Disorder (Perigee, 2007), explains the terminology in detail.

One of the great things about anarchy is that it's hard to get it organized.

It will take time to restore chaos

It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains.

Cops and food, she thought. Put them in the same room, invite chaos.

Side, party got out of hand. Guy shot five people with a

Craziness, indeed. And

The whole universe was crazy and cock-eyed and extremely strange.

Everything was being mixed up, and all was falling.

Either systems are in balance or they are falling apart. If people are acting in what appears to be a twisted way, I want to know the reason for that.

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.

War is the most readily available form of chaos.

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

Routines that teach children good manners, cleanup responsibilities, consideration for others, and respect for teachers provide good preparation for school and life. Disorganized, out of control class environments may cause feelings of insecurity for preschool children. Gifted children may be especially sensitive to the disorder.

the same cast of mind is still manifest; the fascination with the eccentric, the delight in puns, the evocation of artistically controlled disorder.

Behind every dysfunction you will find dishonor, disloyalty, or at least disorder.

The difference is that the heat energy we radiate is a high-entropy form of energy, meaning it's disordered. The chemical energy we absorb is a low-entropy form of energy, meaning it's ordered. In effect, we are consuming order and generating disorder; we live by increasing the disorder of the universe. It's only because the universe started in a highly ordered state that we are able to exist at all.

akinetic mutism,