13+ Ludwig Boltzmann Quotes On Education, Religion And Death

Ludwig Boltzmann was an Austrian physicist who lived from 1844 to 1906. He is best known for his work in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, which laid the foundation for the field of statistical physics. He is also remembered for his famous equation, which relates the entropy of a system to its thermodynamic properties. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Ludwig Boltzmann on education, religion, life.

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

Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world. — Ludwig Boltzmann

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

Thermodynamics, correctly interpreted, does not just allow Darwinian evolution; it favors it. — Ludwig Boltzmann

Which is more remarkable fact about America: that millionaires are idealists or idealists become millionaires. — Ludwig Boltzmann

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

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

It must be splendid to command millions of people in great national ventures, to lead a hundred thousand to victory in battle. But it seems to me greater still to discover fundamental truths in a very modest room with very modest means - truths that will still be foundations of human knowledge when the memory of these battles is painstakingly preserved only in the archives of the historian. — Ludwig Boltzmann

Bring forward what is true, Write it so that it is clear, Defend it to your last breath! — Ludwig Boltzmann

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

The most ordinary things are to philosophy a source of insoluble puzzles. 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

Nothing is more practical than a good theory. — Ludwig Boltzmann

The life contest is primarily a competition for available energy. — Ludwig Boltzmann

Life Lessons by Ludwig Boltzmann

1. Ludwig Boltzmann's work on thermodynamics and statistical mechanics has taught us that the behavior of macroscopic systems can be understood in terms of the behavior of their microscopic components.
2. Boltzmann's work on entropy has shown us that the entropy of a system always increases, and that this increase is related to the probability of the system's states.
3. Boltzmann's work on the kinetic theory of gases has taught us that the behavior of gases can be explained in terms of the motion of their constituent particles.