(1) irreversible processes are as real as reversible ones. (2) irreversible processes play a fundamental constructive role in the physical world. (3)…

- Ilya Prigogine

Now we see evolutionary trends in a variety of areas ranging from atomic and molecular physics through fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology to larg…

- Ilya Prigogine

Entropy is the price of structure.

- Ilya Prigogine

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

- Ilya Prigogine

In far from equilibrium conditions, the concept of probability that underlies Boltzmann's order principle is no longer valid if the structures we obs…

- Ilya Prigogine

The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by ac…

- Ilya Prigogine

The main character of any living system is openness.

- Ilya Prigogine

The real is only one realization of the possible.

- Ilya Prigogine

The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.

- Ilya Prigogine