12 Quotes by Ludwig Boltzmann

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Bring forward what is true. Write it so that it is clear. Defend it to your last breath.

Nothing is more practical than a good theory.

Bring forth what is true; Write it so it it’s clear. Defend it to your last breath.

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

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

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.

The life contest is primarily a competition for available energy.

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.