“If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.”
― Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906)
“Bring forward what is true. Write it so that it is clear. Defend it to your last breath.”
― Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906)
"The most ordinary things are to philosophy a source of insoluble puzzles. In order to explain our perceptions it constructs the concept of matter and then finds matter quite useless either for itself having or for causing perceptions in a mind. With infinite ingenuity it constructs a concept of space or time and then finds it absolutely impossible that there be objects in this space or that processes occur during this time ... The source of this kind of logic lies in excessive confidence in the so-called laws of thought."
― Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906)
"Nothing is more practical than a good theory."
― Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906)
"The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air water & soil, all abundantly available, nor for energy which exists in plenty in the sun and any hot body in the form of heat, but rather a struggle for entropy, which becomes available through the transition of energy from the hot sun to the cold earth."
― Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906)
"The life contest is primarily a competition for available energy."
― Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906)
“In my view all salvation for philosophy may be expected to come from Darwin's theory”
― Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906)