Tom Stoppard Quotes

I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

'Entropy' broadly means tending towards chaos constantly.

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

You're an entropic chaos factor

Entropy requires no maintenance.

Entropy and optimism: the twin forces that make the world go around.

The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum.

Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)

The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.

The present is filled with flotsam and irony and chaos and disorder in all arenas, political and sociological. I think we have to work in the present even if it's awkward, even if it's not necessarily good, even if we don't understand it ourselves. You only find out 10, maybe 20 years later what was going on.

The universe always moves from an ordered state to a disordered one; that a glass may fall to the ground and shatter yet you never see a broken glass reassemble itself and then jump back on the table.

Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.

It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.

Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

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.

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

Only entropy comes easy.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

People think of waves as going in an orderly crash - whoosh - crash - whoosh, but in fact there are lots of different crashes and whooshes, all at different stages, and all going off at the same time.

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things.

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead

The 21st century does not like tidy minds.