What an organism feeds upon is negative entropy. Or, to put… - Erwin Schrödinger

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What an organism feeds upon is negative entropy. Or, to put it less paradoxically, the essential thing in metabolism is that the organism succeeds in freeing itself from all the entropy it cannot help producing while alive.

Erwin Schrödinger

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Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961) was an Austrian physicist, one of the founders of quantum theory, and winner of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics. His ideas were heavily influenced by monist philosophy and he is particularly well known for original interpretations of the significance of the wave function and for devising the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment.

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Alternative Names: Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schröndinger • Erwin Schrodinger • Erwin Schroedinger • Schrödinger • Schrodinger • Ervinus Rudolphus Iosephus Alexandrus Schrödinger

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