Ilya Prigogine quotes
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“The world is richer than it is possible to express in any single language.”
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“The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero.”
-- Ilya PrigogineSource : "100,000 Galaxies: What quest for alien 'supercivilizations' really tells us" by Michael Guillen, www.foxnews.com. April 25, 2015.
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“The main character of any living system is openness.”
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“The real is only one realization of the possible.”
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“The more we know about our universe, the more difficult it becomes to believe in determinism.”
-- Ilya PrigogineSource : Ilya Prigogine, Isabelle Stengers (1997). “The End of Certainty”, p.155, Simon and Schuster
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“The irreversibility of time is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos.”
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“The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.”
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“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 PrigogineSource : Ilya Prigogine (2003). “Is Future Given?”, p.22, World Scientific
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“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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“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 scope. Suffice it to mention Boltzmann's work on kinetic theory, Planck's discovery of quantum theory or Einstein's theory of spontaneous emission, which were all based on the second law of thermodynamics.”
-- Ilya PrigogineSource : "Time, Structure and Fluctuations". Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1977.
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“Entropy is the price of structure.”
-- Ilya PrigogineSource : "Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature". Book by Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers (pp. 283-284), 1984.
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“We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate”
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“(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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