The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium.
The organism feeds on negative entropy.
The energy of the universe is constant.
So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.
I'm a human entropy producer.
The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.
No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it.
Entropy increases. Things fall apart.
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.
Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
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.
Whether you have a leadership title or not, you have the potential to either lead your organization beyond all expectations or inhibit its growth through entropy.
The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.
Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)
Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.
Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
There are foods that accelerate aging and entropy, and others that renew and revitalise the body.
The body and mind are one. When the intimate relationship between mind and body is disrupted, aging and entropy accelerate. Restoring mindbody integration brings about renewal. Through conscious breathing and movement techniques, you can renew the bodymind and reverse the aging process.
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. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.
