Boltzmann's Quotes

#1. In far from equilibrium conditions, the concept of probability that underlies Boltzmann's order principle is no longer valid if the structures we observe do not correspond to a maximum of complexions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

#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. 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

#4. Which is more remarkable fact about America: that millionaires are idealists or idealists become millionaires.

Ludwig Boltzmann

#5. 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

#6. Mark Hughes crossed every I and dotted every T.

Robbie Savage

#7. You know, people always look at that headline as me being "outed," but you can ask anyone, I couldn't even find a closet with a map!

Ashlyn Kane

#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. You can imagine the kind of dinner parties I had to go to at a young age ... pretty dull.

Prince Harry

#10. The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.

William Stafford

#11. Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

Tom Peters

#12. Darling, in this family we don't call anyone a novelist who has not written more books than Jane Austen.

Pansy Schneider-Horst

#13. The life contest is primarily a competition for available energy.

Ludwig Boltzmann

#14. 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

#15. In my view all salvation for philosophy may be expected to come from Darwin's theory

Ludwig Boltzmann

#16. Thermodynamics, correctly interpreted, does not just allow Darwinian evolution; it favors it.

Ludwig Boltzmann

#17. 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

#18. We don't know Religion's death date but we know its birthday: The very night man experienced his first great fear of anything!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#19. A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#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. As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.

Victoria Principal

#23. Bring forward what is true. Write it so that it is clear. Defend it to your last breath.

Ludwig Boltzmann

#24. You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.

Aaliyah