15 Quotes by Ilya Prigogine

Entropy is the price of structure.

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

The main character of any living system is openness.

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

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

The real is only one realization of the possible.

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

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

In far from equilibrium conditions, the concept of probability that underlies Boltzmann’s order principle is no longer valid if the structures we observe do not correspond to a maximum of complexions.