Ilya Prigogine

The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions…

— Ilya Prigogine

“The understanding of complexity and the use of the creativity of nature, the continuation of the work of nature are the grand…

— Ilya Prigogine

Now we see evolutionary trends in a variety of areas ranging from atomic and molecular physics through fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology…

— Ilya Prigogine

The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.

— Ilya Prigogine

The irreversibility of time is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos.

— Ilya Prigogine

“Order arise from chaos.”

— Ilya Prigogine

In far from equilibrium conditions, the concept of probability that underlies Boltzmann's order principle is no longer valid if the structures we…

— Ilya Prigogine

The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is…

— Ilya Prigogine

The main character of any living system is openness.

— Ilya Prigogine

We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate

— Ilya Prigogine

Entropy is the price of structure.

— Ilya Prigogine

The more we know about our universe, the more difficult it becomes to believe in determinism.

— Ilya Prigogine

The world is richer than it is possible to express in any single language.

— Ilya Prigogine

It is a remarkable fact that the second law of thermodynamics has played in the history of science a fundamental role far…

— Ilya Prigogine

“Only when a system behaves in a sufficiently random way may the difference between past and future, and therefore irreversibility, enter into…

— Ilya Prigogine

(1) irreversible processes are as real as reversible ones. (2) irreversible processes play a fundamental constructive role in the physical world. (3)…

— Ilya Prigogine

The real is only one realization of the possible.

— Ilya Prigogine