Entropy Quotes - Page 4

• One of the ongoing themes of my work of interest has been the idea of the inevitably of disintegration, of entropy, constant flux of matter, and so I've done a number of pieces that have explored those ideas. In the decline, there's a lot of beauty.

  Michael C. McMillen

  Done, Interest

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• There are two ways to look at life. The first view is that nothing stays the same and that nothing is inherently connected, and that the only driving force in anyone's life is entropy. The second is that everything pretty much stays the same (more or less) and that everything is completely connected, even if we don't realize it.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Views, Two, Looks

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that gain of entropy eventually is nothing more nor less than loss of information.

  Gilbert N. Lewis

  Loss, Ideas, Information

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• Entropy is one of the laws of thermodynamics. It's a physical law that says everything in nature is moving from order to disorder. In our lives this same principle is at work. As time moves on, things break down as we make mistakes. This is the 'letdown' every person experiences because of sin. For Christians this concept doesn't end there because we realize God's 'beautiful' mercy and grace restores the order in our lives.

  Jon Foreman

  Beautiful, Christian, Mistake

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• Harmonising your biological rhythms with the rhythms of nature minimises entropy and reverses aging.

  Deepak Chopra

  Aging, Rhythm, Reverse

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• Instead of focusing on the work, you focus on the entropy and the chaos and you get a byproduct.

  Ben Chestnut

  Focus, Chaos

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• In an expanding universe, order is not really order, but merely the difference between the actual entropy exhibited and the maximum entropy possible.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Expanding Universe, Order, Differences

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Blue Mars”, p.480, Spectra

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• The body and mind are one. When the intimate relationship between mind and body is disrupted, aging and entropy accelerate. Restoring mind/body integration brings about renewal. Through conscious breathing and movement techniques, you can renew the body/mind and reverse the aging process.

  Deepak Chopra

  Breathing, Intimate Relationships, Mind

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• Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which the dark spirits tended their seeds.

  Dan Brown

  Dark, Men, Law

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• I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would grow up, squirrels would move in. That entropy is gone now. It's too expensive to let a vacant lot go natural.

  Moby

  Weed, New York, Growing Up

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• The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy, unpredictable, unruly text, swimming upstream of spell-check and predictive auto-completion: Don't let them banalize you. Keep fighting.

  Brian Christian

  Writing, Fighting, Swimming

  "The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive". Book by Brian Christian, 2010.

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• Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of information.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Information, Way, Pressure

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.98, Harvard University Press

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• Once everyone is connected to everyone and everything else, nothing matters anymore. If everyone in the world is your Facebook friend, then why have any Facebook friends at all? We're back where we started. The ultimate complexity is just another entropy.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  World, Matter, Complexity

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.126, Penguin

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• What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that we measure entropy. We measure changes and those changes are all for the worse. We measure increasing disorder. Life is hard, says science, and constancy is the greatest of miracles.

  David Quammen

  Life Is Hard, Miracle, Cheerful

  David Quammen (2012). “Wild Thoughts from Wild Places”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• Death is not necessarily what gives meaning to life LIFE gives meaning to life, and what we do with life, which is to create knowledge like music, art, science To this end, I believe intelligent life might be evolution's secret weapon: the ultimate hack that might help us transcend entropy.

  Jason Silva

  Art, Believe, Intelligent

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• I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a beautiful motto, and it celebrates everything which is the antithesis of death and dissolution and entropy.

  Chris Cleave

  Beautiful, Thinking, Stronger

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• The flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow.... But someone must see this already today, and speak heretically today about tomorrow. Heretics are the only (bitter) remedy against the entropy of human thought.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Flames

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.9, Modern Library

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• We are, in fact, hyper-dimentional objects of some sort which cast a shadow into matter, and the shadow in matter is the body. And at death, what happens basically, is that the shadow withdraws, or the thing which cast the shadow withdraws, and metabolism ceases, and matter which had been organized into a dissipative structure in a very localized area, sustaining itself against entropy by cycling material in and degrading it and expelling it, that whole phenomenon ceases, but the thing which ordered it is not affected by that.

  Terence McKenna

  Cycling, Shadow, Body

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• Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. It seems almost as if progress itself and our fight against the increase of entropy intrinsically must end in the downhill path from which we are trying to escape.

  Norbert Wiener

  Fighting, Progress, Trying

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• Revolution is everywhere, in everything. It is infinite. There is no final revolution, no final number. The social revolution is only one of an infinite number of numbers: the law of revolution is not a social law, but an immeasurably greater one. It is a cosmic, universal law - like the laws of the conservation of energy and of the dissipation of energy (entropy).

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Law

  "A Soviet Heretic : Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin". 1970.

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• Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are those works where the structures of fairytales are abandoned but the world of 'fairy' is imported as a delicate spice.

  Graham Joyce

  Interesting, Fairytale, Spices

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• Since a given system can never of its own accord go over into another equally probable state but into a more probable one, it is likewise impossible to construct a system of bodies that after traversing various states returns periodically to its original state, that is a perpetual motion machine.

  Ludwig Boltzmann

  Machines, Body, Return

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• Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent it. But art is not meant to stop the stream of life. Within a narrow span of duration and space the work of art concentrates a view of the human condition; and sometimes it marks the steps of progression, just as a man climbing the dark stairs of a medieval tower assures himself by the changing sights glimpsed through its narrow windows that he is getting somewhere after all.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Dark, Men

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.56, Univ of California Press

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• The story of the Kelly system is a story of secrets - or if you prefer, a story of entropy.

  William Poundstone

  Secret, Stories, Ifs

  William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.76, Macmillan

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• It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. As Henry Ford said many years earlier: "If I had listened to my customers, I would have built a faster horse." Inventions in general express Shannon entropy. They come from the supply side.

  George Gilder

  Horse, Years, People

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.32, Regnery Publishing

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