"Energy is needed to replace not only the mechanical energy of our bodily exertions, but also the heat we continually give off... And that we give off heat is not accidental, but essential. For this is precisely the manner in which we dispose of the surplus entropy we continually produce in our... life process."

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p. 84. Notes to section VI (1956)

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