Irreversibility Quotes
- Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as that enjoined by… — Jacques Monod
- In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected… — Hannah Arendt
- The irreversibility of time is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos. — Ilya Prigogine
- You can't drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself against the sicko… — Josephine Humphreys
- Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated — George Gascon
- (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… — Ilya Prigogine
- Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors --… — Hannah Arendt
- The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility──of being unable to undo what one has done──is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for… — Hannah Arendt