How would we express in terms of the statistical theory the marvelous faculty of a living organism, by which it delays the decay into thermodynamical equilibrium (death)?... the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of orderliness... really consists in continually sucking orderliness from its environment.


What Is Life? (1944)

Erwin Schrödinger Quotes

How would we express in terms of the statistical theory the marvelous faculty of a living organism, by which it delays the decay into thermodynamical ...

How would we express in terms of the statistical theory the marvelous faculty of a living organism, by which it delays the decay into thermodynamical ...

How would we express in terms of the statistical theory the marvelous faculty of a living organism, by which it delays the decay into thermodynamical ...

How would we express in terms of the statistical theory the marvelous faculty of a living organism, by which it delays the decay into thermodynamical ...