Prigogine Ilya Quotes

#1. I thought if I had straight hair and a perfect nose, my whole career would be different.

Sarah Jessica Parker

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 In far from equilibrium conditions, the concept of probability that underlies Boltzmann's order principle is no longer valid if the structures we observe do not correspond to a maximum of complexions

Ilya Prigogine

#3. 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.

Ilya Prigogine

#4. Order arise from chaos.

Ilya Prigogine

#5. I've spent a lot of time wondering, What's going to happen? What's going to happen? I try not to allow myself to do that much anymore. I think ive gotten more comfortable with the unknown.

Lauren Graham

#6. (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.

Ilya Prigogine

#7. We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening

Zhuangzi

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

Ilya Prigogine

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

Ilya Prigogine

#10. 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

Ilya Prigogine

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

Ilya Prigogine

#12. Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

Samuel Richardson

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

Ilya Prigogine

#14. A woman wouldn't make a bomb that kills you. A woman would make a bomb that makes you feel bad for a while. That's why there should be a woman President. There'd never be any wars, just every twenty-eight days there'd be very intense negotiations.

Robin Williams

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

Ilya Prigogine

#16. Entropy is the price of structure.

Ilya Prigogine

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

Ilya Prigogine

#18. I've done so many Lifetime movies; at this point, I'll be going through airport security, and the lady there will be like, 'I took the weekend off and I saw four of your movies.' And I say: 'You've been watching Lifetime, right?'

Linden Ashby

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

Ilya Prigogine

#20. Vision is also a fickle creature. You can see an object a hundred times, a thousand times, and it remains unchanged. Then in one swift second you realize it has been changing all along and your eyes hid it from you.

Cherie Priest

#21. Being on the spiritual path means you want to be a success in an existential sphere, not just on a social level.

Jaggi Vasudev

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

Ilya Prigogine

#23. By the way, the next time you get your cholesterol checked, make a note of the season. Because sunlight converts cholesterol to vitamin D, cholesterol levels can be higher in winter months, when we continue to make and eat cholesterol but there's less sunlight available to convert it.

Sharon Moalem