quotes about Entropy
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Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.
-- Alfred BesterSource : Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”
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Once I got home, I sulked for a while. All my brilliant plans foiled by thermodynamics. Damn you, Entropy!
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Entropy is the price of structure.
-- Ilya PrigogineSource : "Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature". Book by Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers (pp. 283-284), 1984.
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The total energy of the universe is constant; the total entropy is continually increasing.
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The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.
-- Rudolf Clausius -
The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium.
-- Rudolf Clausius -
Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.
-- Spider Robinson -
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The story of the Kelly system is a story of secrets - or if you prefer, a story of entropy.
-- William PoundstoneSource : 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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Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
-- Yevgeny ZamyatinSource : Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.9, Modern Library
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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