Ilya Prigogine Quotes

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

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#2. The real is only one realization of the possible.

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

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

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#5. Entropy is the price of structure.

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

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

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#8. 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 systems of relevance in environmental and economic sciences

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#9. The main character of any living system is openness.

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

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#11. (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 rooted in dynamics.

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#12. Order arise from chaos.

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#13. 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 which prebotic evolution occurred.

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#14. In far from equilibrium conditions, the concept of probability that underlies Boltzmann's order principle is no longer valid if the structures we observe do not correspond to a maximum of complexions

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