Ilya Prigogine

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

"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…"

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

"The probability that at ordinary temperatures a macroscopic number of molecules is assembled to give rise to the highly ordered structures and to the coordinated functions characterizing living organi…"

"Whatever we call reality, it is revealed to us only through the active construction in which we participate."