Top 26 Boltzmann Quotes
#1. Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906 by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.
David Goodstein
#2. entropy taken with a negative sign', which by the way is not my invention. It happens to be precisely the thing on which Boltzmann's original argument turned.
Erwin Schrodinger
#3. In far from equilibrium conditions, the concept of probability that underlies Boltzmann's order principle is no longer valid if the structures we observe do not correspond to a maximum of complexions
Ilya Prigogine
#4. By the study of Boltzmann I have been unable to understand him. He could not understand me on account of my shortness, and his length was and is an equal stumbling block to me.
James Clerk Maxwell
#5. There are times where you can't do it yourself and the system takes over, or it's appropriate to do things differently. But I think driving your son and your wife away from hospital was really important to me.
Prince William
#6. 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
#7. Which is more remarkable fact about America: that millionaires are idealists or idealists become millionaires.
Ludwig Boltzmann
#8. Philosophy gets on my nerves. If we analyze the ultimate ground of everything, then everything finally falls into nothingness. But I have decided to resume my lectures again and look the Hydra of doubt straight into the eye, and it be quite ominous if one values one's life.
Ludwig Boltzmann
#9. I always joke that they're all like my children, so I love them all, but I would be lying if I didn't admit that 'Wonder Woman' has an affinity for me.
Diane Nelson
#10. Give me the whole world to run and then I'll be happy. If tomorrow I was told I had to sort out the whole world's problems I'd sleep like a baby.
Ken Livingstone
#11. The life contest is primarily a competition for available energy.
Ludwig Boltzmann
#12. Limits exist only in the souls of those who do not dream.
Philippe Petit
#13. A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few bars, Mozart, Beethoven or Schubert.
Ludwig Boltzmann
#14. In my view all salvation for philosophy may be expected to come from Darwin's theory
Ludwig Boltzmann
#15. Thermodynamics, correctly interpreted, does not just allow Darwinian evolution; it favors it.
Ludwig Boltzmann
#18. She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will,' then her friend Friedrich Bhaer was not only good, but great.
Louisa May Alcott
#19. The phrase "singular incredible life" seems to me that it applies more appropriately to Jane Goodall or David Attenborough, people I regard with awe and who stand for great humanism and knowledge.
Merrill Markoe
#20. If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Ludwig Boltzmann
#21. Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world.
Ludwig Boltzmann
#22. Don't waste your time with fear.. Fear won't keep you safe from being hurt.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#23. An authentic coaching relationship gives the client personal choice and control.
Michael J. Marx
#24. In the tranquillity of a garden, we detest the war and love the peace much more than any other places!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#25. Where ethics are concerned, intentions are everything.
Sam Harris
#26. Bring forward what is true. Write it so that it is clear. Defend it to your last breath.
Ludwig Boltzmann
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