Complexity Quote by Ilya Prigogine

Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.

— Madame de Stael

“Because of their composite nature, complex systems can exhibit catastrophic behavior.”

— Per Bak

Nothing is irreversible except dying.

— Danielle Steel

“The natural effect of processes going on in the Universe is to move from a state of order to a state of disorder, unless…

— John Gribbin

And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes; matter assumes new forms, the destruction of…

— Humphry Davy

As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself.

— Marie-Louise von Franz

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

— Ilya Prigogine

So far as we know, all the fundamental laws of physics, like Newton's equations, are reversible.

— Richard P. Feynman

Temporality and the transformation of energy are two very important aspects in my work.

— Cai Guo-Qiang

A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think)…

— Karl Popper

Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.

— Isaac Newton

I believe that energy can't be destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another. There's more to life than we can…

— Corinne Bailey Rae