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

Ludwig Boltzmann

#3. There were two unpleasant surprises [about Washington]. One was the inertia of Congress, the length of time it takes to get a complicated piece of legislation through ... and the other was the irresponsibility of the press.

Jimmy Carter

#4. 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

#5. There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.

Amitabh Bachchan

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

Ludwig Boltzmann

#7. 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

#8. Off fucking shitty mankind, you change the topic... you say something I say something against and immediately you change the topic, but why?
The soil is too hot?
The sand is too hot?
Why?

Deyth Banger

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

Ludwig Boltzmann

#10. 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

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

Ludwig Boltzmann

#12. Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.

Gertrude Stein

#13. If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Ludwig Boltzmann

#14. Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world.

Ludwig Boltzmann

#15. A natural action is accomplished in the briefest manner.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#16. Islam - a religion horribly misrepresented by terrorists, which is like the IRA saying they represented Irish people. Islam is a BEAUTIFUL religion. would make you cry it's so beautiful ... and gentle.

Sinead O'Connor

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

Ludwig Boltzmann