All Ilya Prigogine Quotes
- The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years during… Billions
- Now we see evolutionary trends in a variety of areas ranging from atomic and molecular physics through fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology to large scale… Areas
- The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity. Creativity
- The irreversibility of time is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos. Brings
- The world is richer than it is possible to express in any single language. Any
- The more we know about our universe, the more difficult it becomes to believe in determinism. Becomes
- The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero. Accident
- The real is only one realization of the possible. Inspirational
- (1) irreversible processes are as real as reversible ones. (2) irreversible processes play a fundamental constructive role in the physical world. (3) irreversibility is deeply… Complexity
- The main character of any living system is openness. Any
- We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate Amount
- Entropy is the price of structure. Entropy
- It is a remarkable fact that the second law of thermodynamics has played in the history of science a fundamental role far beyond its original… All