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# Date Theory Person 1. 1798 “Life, being that food and room are in limited supply,
is a struggle for existence.”Thomas Malthus [2] 2. 1886 “The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials – these, for organisms, are air, water and soil, all abundantly available – nor for energy, which exists in plenty in any body in the form of heat Q, but of a struggle for entropy S, which becomes available through the transition of energy from the hot sun to the cold earth.”Ludwig Boltzmann [3] 3. 1905 “[The] struggle for existence is a struggle for free energy
available for doing work.”Ludwig Boltzmann [8] 4. 1955 “The whole of life and civilization as we know it depends on thermodynamic instability; the struggle for existence is a struggle for free energy available for doing work.” Anon [7] 5. 1959 “All life is a struggle for free energy.” Leslie White [4] 6. 1963 “Man's whole struggle … practically every element in man’s developed civilization, may be interpreted either as an instinctive or conscious and deliberate attempt to replace disorder with order, in other words to consume entropy.” Robert Lindsay [5] 7. 1967 “Power may be defined, for every society, as resulting from
the need to struggle against the entropy
that threatens it with disorder.”Georges Balandier [9] 8. 1993 “Conflict (and ultimately war) does not arise between human and nature; rather, the struggle is between more developed systems and something else that is necessarily less developed and that the physicists know as entropy.” Jean-François Lyotard [6]
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