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

- Ludwig Boltzmann

The life contest is primarily a competition for available energy.

- 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 av…

- 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, Mo…

- 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 gre…

- Ludwig Boltzmann

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

- Ludwig Boltzmann

Nothing is more practical than a good theory.

- Ludwig Boltzmann

Philosophy gets on my nerves. If we analyze the ultimate ground of everything, then everything finally falls into nothingness. But I have decided to …

- 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 f…

- Ludwig Boltzmann