“Only when a system behaves in a sufficiently random way may the difference between past and future, and therefore irreversibility, enter into its description...The arrow of time is the manifestation of the fact that the future is not given, that,… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
“The understanding of complexity and the use of the creativity of nature, the continuation of the work of nature are the grand challenges for… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
Now we see evolutionary trends in a variety of areas ranging from atomic and molecular physics through fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology to large… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity. — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
The irreversibility of time is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos. — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
In far from equilibrium conditions, the concept of probability that underlies Boltzmann's order principle is no longer valid if the structures we observe do… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero. — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
The more we know about our universe, the more difficult it becomes to believe in determinism. — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
