Entropy and Energy

I shall explain it to you in your own language and you will understand better: there are two forces in the world, entropy and energy. One leads into blessed quietude, to happy equilibrium, the other to the destruction of equilibrium, to torturingly perpetual motion.

I-330 We (1924) by Yevgeny Zamyatin

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Context: I-330 puts her view of the world into terms the mathematician D-503 can follow.

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Source: Record Twenty-eight

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