In simplest terms, entropy can be described as the measurement of randomness or the degree of randomness.Entropy is often used to depict how disorganized a system is at times. This disorder increases over time, and if not taken care of, it can affect our lives on a larger scale with rising chaos.In the past, people have adopted and observed this concept of entropy in their day-to-day lives. They often refer to it as human entropy. This phenomenon has led to people addressing entropy in their daily lives and generating several quotes about entropy in the universe, in their lives, and in the chaos that it forms. Scroll down further to read some of the best-known entropy-related quotes from all across the world.Entropy Quotes About Time And The UniversePeople often refer to entropy in our universe as nature’s tax, which if left unchecked, will grow by leaps and bounds over the years. See some time and universe-related entropy quotes here.“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.”- ‘Living In Truth’, Vaclav Havel.“The fundamental laws of the universe which correspond to the two fundamental theorems of the mechanical theory of heat.1. The energy of the universe is constant.2. The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.”- ‘The Mechanical Theory Of Heat’, Rudolf Clausius.“So far as physics is concerned, time’s arrow is a property of entropy alone.”- ‘The Nature Of The Physical World’, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington.“The powerful notion of entropy, which comes from a very special branch of physics… is certainly useful in the study of communication and quite helpful when applied in the theory of language.”- ‘The Growth Of Science And The Structure Of Culture’, Robert Oppenheimer.“Any method involving the notion of entropy, the very existence of which depends on the second law of thermodynamics, will doubtless seem to many far-fetched, and may repel beginners as obscure and difficult of comprehension.”- Willard Gibbs.“Scientists have long been baffled by the existence of spontaneous order in the universe. The laws of thermodynamics seem to dictate the opposite, that nature should inexorably degenerate toward a state of greater disorder, greater entropy.”- Steven Strogatz.“If we assume there is no maximum possible entropy for the universe, then any state can be a state of low entropy.”- Alan Guth.“Once I got home, I sulked for a while. All my brilliant plans are foiled by thermodynamics. Damn you, Entropy!”- Andy Weir.“Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.”- Norman Ralph Augustine.“All things tend toward entropy. The whole universe is moving outward, the stars pulling away from one another. God knows what is falling through the cracks between them.”- Cassandra Clare.“If your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.”- Arthur Eddington.“It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that the gain of entropy eventually is nothing more nor less than the loss of information.”- Gilbert N. Lewis.“Just as entropy is a measure of disorganization, the information carried by a set of messages is a measure of organization. In fact, it is possible to interpret the information carried by a message as essentially the negative of its entropy, and the negative logarithm of its probability.”- Norbert Wiener.“The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium.”- Rudolf Clausius.“This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is the way of entropy, of universal destruction.”- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.“The process of thinking itself requires us to view the universe in the direction of entropy, since an abstraction always involves information loss, since symbols ‘abstract’ complexity from observed objects.”- John C. Wright.Entropy Quotes About Life (These entropy quotes talk about its impact on our everyday lives.)Entropy has been an integral part of human lives since time immemorial, and these quotes talk about how entropy functions in our lives.“Technology is the means by which we have decommissioned natural selection and are seizing control. We are no longer to be victims of some blind evolutionary process where sentient beings are massacred by entropy.”- Jason Silva.“Life, this anti-entropy, ceaselessly reloaded with energy, is a climbing force, toward order amidst chaos, toward light, among the darkness of the indefinite, toward the mystic dream of Love, between the fire which devours itself and the silence of the Cold.”- ‘Nobel Lecture, The Coming Age Of The Cell’, Albert Claude.“The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.”- Robert Smithson.“It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from the best of visions. The world becomes grayer. Entropy beats us down. Everything fades. Everything goes. Everything dies.”- Robert Silverberg.“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.”- Simon T. Bailey.“Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.”- Yevgeny Zamyatin.“If you stop being scared, that’s when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.”- Tamsin Greig.“Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.”- Jerry Saltz.“Entropy makes things fall, but life ingeniously rigs the game so that when they do, they often fall into place.”- John Tooby.“Cut lose your ties with expectation. Your dreams are charlatans, your memories are stalemating quarks. Listen only to the pull of your atoms and follow the discordant hum of your personal entropy.”- Virginia Petrucci.“The minute those two little particles inside a woman’s womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy.”- Rex Stout."‘Entropy’ will be a kaleidoscope of thought processes and my identity as an Indian who grew up in California."- Sid Sriram.“If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.”- Walter Lang.“In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it’s not there if you want to keep writing good code.”- Karl Lehenbauer.“The most basic human impulse is toward entropy and laziness. The less we have to do to grow spiritually, the more likely we are to do it.”- Alexandra Fuller.“The fact that you’re always born young and then you grow older, and not the other way around like Benjamin Button-it’s all because of entropy. So I think that entropy is underappreciated as something that has a crucial role in how we go through life.”- Sean M. Carroll.“People are, at their heart, constantly moving toward a state of entropy. Much like this ship. We’re all spiraling out of control.”- Beth Revis.“It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.”- James Gleick.“If you have all your wishes fulfilled, you have what could be called psychological entropy. I found then that what I had thought to be a pathological phenomenon is in fact a rule of nature.”- C.G. Jung.“Use “entropy” and you can never lose a debate, von Neumann told Shannon, because no one really knows what “entropy” is.”- William Poundstone.“You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your purpose? To add to the complexity. Your enemy? Disorder, entropy, stupidity, and tastelessness.”- Terence McKenna.“But if one takes control of what the body can do, and learns to impose order on physical sensations, entropy yields to a sense of enjoyable harmony in consciousness.”- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.“The body and mind are one. When the intimate relationship between mind and body is disrupted, ageing and entropy accelerate. Restoring mind/body integration brings about renewal.”- Deepak Chopra.Entropy Quotes About ChaosEntropy is a measure of randomness or chaos and it increases gradually over time if kept unchecked. This phenomenon is pretty similar to what goes on in human lives.“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."[A living organism] … feeds upon negative entropy… Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of orderliness (= fairly low level of entropy) really consists in continually sucking orderliness from its environment."- ‘What Is Life? : The Physical Aspect Of The Living Cell’, Erwin Schrodinger.“Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored;Light dies before thy uncreating word:Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;And universal darkness buries all.”- Alexander Pope.“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.“We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.”- Michael Polanyi.“As someone fairly committed to the death of our solar system and ultimately the entropy of the universe, I think the question of what we should worry about is irrelevant in the end.”- Bruce Hood.“In high school, when I first heard of entropy, I was attracted to it immediately. They said that in nature, all systems are breaking down, and I thought, What a wonderful thing; perhaps I can make some small contribution to this process, myself.”- George Carlin.“One of the main purpose of art has ever been that of making its indispensable contribution to the growth of entropy of the universal stupidity.”- William C. Brown.“I think I have this field around me that makes electronics work bad. It’s not like an entropy thing; it happens very quickly.”- Cary Fukunaga.“Until Tuesday, occupy Wall Street seemed, at least from the outside, to be entering a stage of entropy.”- Michelle Goldberg.“Chaos comes before all principles of order & entropy, it’s neither a god nor a maggot, its idiotic desires encompass & define every possible choreography, all meaningless aethers & phlogistons: its masks are crystallizations of its own facelessness, like clouds.”- Hakim Bey.“Information… exhausts itself in the staging of meaning… [and leads] not at all to a surfeit of innovation but, to the very contrary, to total entropy.”- Jean Baudrillard.“The story of the Kelly system is a story of secrets—or if you prefer, a story of entropy.”- William Poundstone.“Thought interferes with the probability of events, and, in the long run therefore, with entropy.”- ‘Entropy And Organization’, David L. Watson.“Entropy is Janus-faced. Its upside surprises are redemptive and favorable to freedom. It is freedom of choice. But the carrier itself requires constant vigilance against entropic noise. Order is not spontaneous, but it is a necessary condition for all the surprises of freedom and opportunity.”- George Gilder.“Of course, uh, the universe is gradually slowing down and, uh, will eventually collapse inwardly on itself, according to the laws of entropy when all its thermal and mechanical functions fail, thus rendering all human endeavors ultimately pointless. Just to put the gig in some sort of context.”- Bill Bailey.“Stars looking at our planet, watching entropy and pain and maybe starting to wonder how the chaos in our lives could pass as sane. I’ve been thinkin’ ‘bout the meaning of resistance of a world beyond our own, and suddenly the infinite and penitent began to look like home.”- Jon Foreman.“It’s our job to take entropy and randomness and find meaning.”- Khaled Hosseini.“The universe and life are based on chance, but no accident. Forces of chance and anti chance coexist in a complementary relationship. The random element is entropy, the agent of chaos, which destroys meaning. The nonrandom element is information.”- Joseph Stirt.Quotes About Understanding EntropyEven though in layman’s terms entropy is a mere measure of randomness, it is still a tricky concept at times. These quotes from some of the greatest thinkers in the world throw light on understanding entropy.“You should never be surprised by or feel the need to explain why any physical system is in a high entropy state.”- ‘The Fabric Of The Cosmos: Space, Time, And The Texture Of Reality’, Brian Greene.“Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.”- ‘In Entropy And Art: An Essay On Disorder And Order’, Rudolf Arnheim.“Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.”- John Green.“So the second law is merely probabilistic. Statistically, everything tends toward maximum entropy.”- James Gleick.“Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.”- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.“The increase of disorder or entropy with time is one example of what is called an arrow of time, something that distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.”- Stephen Hawking.“I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.”- Elon Musk.“Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature, pressure, and volume are, but about our lack of information.”- Hans Christian von Baeyer.“This must be the sixth realm, the nameless void. Entropy is the only lord here. We will all bow down before him in the end.”- Peter F. Hamilton.“The total energy of the universe is constant; the total entropy is continually increasing.”- Rudolf Clausius.“Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.”- Spider Robinson.“We form cities in order to enhance interaction, to facilitate growth, wealth creation, ideas, innovation, but in so doing, we create, from a physicist’s viewpoint, entropy.”- Geoffrey West.“Humanity enveloped in entropy desperately seeking symmetry for peace of mind.”- Dean Cavanagh.“Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world.”- Brandon Sanderson.“One thinks one’s something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one’s just a slight interruption in the ongoing march of entropy.”- Aldous Huxley.“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 systems over time.”- Mark O’Connell.“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.”- Rudolf Arnheim.“The universe is based on sullen entropy; It falls apart as it goes on.”- Robyn Hitchcock.“Professor Eddington has recently remarked that ‘The law that entropy always increases - the second law of thermodynamics - holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of nature’.”- Ronald Fisher.“Harmonising your biological rhythms with the rhythms of nature minimises entropy and reverses aging.”- Deepak Chopra.“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.
In simplest terms, entropy can be described as the measurement of randomness or the degree of randomness.
