Daniel Katz (1903–1998) American psychologist
Source: The Social Psychology of Organizations (1966), p. 16-17
“For what is life but organized energy?”
Out of the Sun, p. 656
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)
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Susan Cain (1968) self-help writer
Cook, Gareth (interviewer), "The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance," Scientific American, January 24, 2012.
“Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.”
Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923) French actress
As quoted in Madam Sarah (1966) by Cornelia Otis Skinner, p. xvi
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
"Einstein's Reply to Criticisms" (1949), The World As I See It (1949)
Context: What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it? I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
As quoted in Love's Way (1918) by Orison Swett Marden, p. 175; no earlier citation of this to Browning has been located.
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Variant: Love is energy of life.
Paul Cilliers (1956–2011) South African philosopher
Source: Complexity and Postmodernism (1998), p. 4; as cited in Richard Andrews et al. (2012, p. 129)
Harold J. Morowitz (1927–2016) American biophysicist
Energy Flow in Biology: Biological Organization as a Problem in Thermal Physics (1968), p. 2.
Italics are in the original. Later quoted on the inside front cover of The Last Whole Earth Catalog.
“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
Source: The Philosophy of Aristotle
Viktor Schauberger (1885–1958) austrian philosopher and inventor
Viktor Schauberger in a letter to Aloys Kokaly in 1953 - Implosion Magazine No. 29, p. 22 (Callum Coats: Energy Evolution)
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Robert M. Pirsig book Lila: An Inquiry into Morals
Lila (1991)
Context: The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that all energy systems run down like a clock and never rewind themselves. But life not only 'runs up,' converting low energy sea-water, sunlight and air into high-energy chemicals, it keeps multiplying itself into more and better clocks that keep 'running up' faster and faster. Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive? If we leave a chemistry professor out on a rock in the sun long enough the forces of nature will convert him into simple compounds of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen, calcium, phosphorus, and small amounts of other minerals. It's a one-way reaction. No matter what kind of chemistry professor we use and no matter what process we use we can't turn these compounds back into a chemistry professor. Chemistry professors are unstable mixtures of predominantly unstable compounds which, in the exclusive presence of the sun's heat, decay irreversibly into simpler organic and inorganic compounds. That's a scientific fact. The question is: Then why does nature reverse this process? What on earth causes the inorganic compounds to go the other way? It isn't the sun's energy. We just saw what the sun's energy did. It has to be something else. What is it?