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

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 …

- 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

To go straight to the deepest depth, I went for Hegel; what unclear thoughtless flow of words I was to find there! My unlucky star led me from Hegel …

- Ludwig Boltzmann

Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of state; from the other side,…

- Ludwig Boltzmann

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

- 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

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

- Ludwig Boltzmann