Ilya Prigogine

"Coherent behavior is the characteristic feature of biological systems."

"Given my interest in the concept of time, it was only natural that my attention was focused on the second principle, as I felt from the start that it would introduce a new, unexpected element into the…"

"The denial of becoming by physics estranged science from philosophy... became a dogmatic assertion directed against all those for whom a qualitative diversity existed in nature... Today we believe tha…"

"We have seen that the formation and maintenance of self-organizing systems are compatible with the laws of physical chemistry."

"The threat lies in the realization that in our universe the security of stable, permanent rules are gone forever. We are living in a dangerous and uncertain world that inspires no blind confidence. Ou…"

"The problem of time in physics and chemistry is closely related to the formulation of the second law of thermodynamics. Therefore another possible title of this lecture could have been: “the macroscop…"

"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 t…"

"The functional order maintained within living systems seems to defy the Second Law; nonequilibrium thermodynamics describes how such systems come to terms with entropy."