“ In despair, I offer your readers their choice of the following definitions of entropy. My authorities are such books and journals as I have by me at the moment.(a) Entropy is that portion of the intri… Sydney Herbert Evershed
“ Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart… John Green
“ As it often did when I thought about chicken wings and entropy, my mind turned to Emerson. Life is a journey, not a destination. Now that was one stone-cold motherfucker who was not afraid to deliver… Colson Whitehead
“ The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order toderive a permanent future income from it - to convert wealth that perishesinto debt that endures, debt that does not rot, costs… Frederick Soddy
“ Artists are agents of chaos. It is the artistsjob to encourage entropy, to promote chaos. Idols must be killed, icons crushed, beliefsshattered. It is the artists job to encourage legitimate, unadulte… Jonathan Culver
“ We all behave like Maxwell’s demon. Organisms organize. In everyday experience lies the reason sober physicists across two centuries kept this cartoon fantasy alive. We sort the mail, build sand castl… James Gleick
“ No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it. Philip K. Dick
“ The economy of early hominids and that of twenty-first century society have enormous differences, but they do share one important feature: in both of these economies, humans accumulate information in… César A. Hidalgo
“ Keeping things stable takes energy. I guess it's a little counter-intuitive, since you think of Newton's first law: a body at rest will stay at rest. But the reality is different. Think about an old w… Joshua Edward Smith
“ I’d begun to think of the Immortality Bus as the Entropy Bus, and of ourselves as trundling across Texas in a great mobile metaphor for the inevitable decline of all things, the disintegration of all… Mark O'Connell
“ The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment. Derrick Jensen
“ How do you say, 'Do things for me without me asking you to' since in saying that, you are asking them? Joshua Edward Smith
“ Oceans recede and coastlines wither and crack. Nations lapse; others soon swagger in their places. Mountains crumble to dust, rains vanish into the sea, winds return whence they came, and every city m… J. Aleksandr Wootton
“ According to Lamarck, there was a force—the ‘power of life’—that pushed organisms to become increasingly complex. Elizabeth Kolbert
“ It is very desirable to have a word to express the Availability for work of the heat in a given magazine; a term for that possession, the waste of which is called Dissipation. Unfortunately the excell… Peter Guthrie Tait
