Occupation: Chemist Birth: January 25, 1917 Death: May 28, 2003
Entropy is the price of structure..
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….
Now we see evolutionary trends in a variety of areas ranging from atomic and molecular physics through fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology to larg….
The more we know about our universe, the more difficult it becomes to believe in determinism..
The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity..
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. ….
The irreversibility of time is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos..
The world is richer than it is possible to express in any single language..
We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate.
(1) irreversible processes are as real as reversible ones. (2) irreversible processes play a fundamental constructive role in the physical world. (3)….
In far from equilibrium conditions, the concept of probability that underlies Boltzmann's order principle is no longer valid if the structures we obs….
The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by ac….
The main character of any living system is openness..
The real is only one realization of the possible..