Hans Christian von Baeyer Quote

Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of information.


Chapter 11, The Message on the Tombstone, The meaning of entropy, p. 97-98 - Information, The New Language of Science (2003)


Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of information.

Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of information.

Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of information.

Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of information.