Entropy Quotes
How thinkers describe the pull toward disorder.
Entropy gets defined here as a steady tendency toward Chaos, but also as a theory that struggles to explain structure rather than just randomness. These quotes sit at the edge of physics and form.
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.
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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...
We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.
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If we assume there is no maximum possible entropy for the universe, then any state can be a state of low entropy.
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One idea recurs: a large collection of elements can behave in ways no smaller sample would predict. It's a reminder that entropy theory stays concerned with distribution, not just succession, in any given arrangement.
