Prigogine Ilya Quotes & Sayings

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

What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance. — Mason Cooley

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

The irreversibility of time is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos. — 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 large scale systems of relevance in environmental and economic sciences — Ilya Prigogine

You have to understand the way the liberal looks at something working. Their purpose here is not to provide you health care cheaply, affordably and plentifully. That's not what this is about to them. — Rush Limbaugh

(1) irreversible processes are as real as reversible ones. (2) irreversible processes play a fundamental constructive role in the physical world. (3) irreversibility is deeply rooted in dynamics. — Ilya Prigogine

The real is only one realization of the possible. — Ilya Prigogine

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 theory, Planck's discovery of quantum theory or Einstein's theory of spontaneous emission, which were all based on the second law of thermodynamics. — Ilya Prigogine

This image of his remained in the forefront of my memory so long, I think, because life itself can seem a lot like that: a matter of holding one's self-respect together, instead of a horse, as one's self-respect is expected to hurdle fences and hedges and water. My dear thirteen-year-old daughter Lily, having become a pretty adolescent, appears to me, as do most American adolescents, to be holding her self-respect together the best she can in a really scary steeplechase. — Kurt Vonnegut

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

I prefer to keep fooling myself, at least for a little while longer. — Tucker Max

He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition. — James Nasmyth

The main character of any living system is openness. — Ilya Prigogine

Baby you're a firework, c'mon show 'em what you're worth..." ~Firework — Katy Perry

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

At the end of the day you have to go home to yourself. You have to be with yourself. So make sure what you're doing in business is representative of who you are and that you feel comfortable and that you can stand behind your work. — Kathryn Finney

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 prebotic evolution occurred. — Ilya Prigogine

Order arise from chaos. — Ilya Prigogine

This is the secret of how the Jewish people have created a hedge against chaos in their partnership with God. Sharing creates room in your life for more blessings to come in. Giving creates an endless circuit. You earn, you give, and then you earn more. — Celso Cukierkorn

He waved irritably at a waiter. There was a small bar in a dark corner of the room, where an old, wizened bartender stood for long stretches of time without moving. When called upon, he moved with contemptuous slowness. His job was that of servant to men's relaxation and pleasure, but his manner was that of an embittered quack ministering to some guilty disease. — Ayn Rand

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 — Ilya Prigogine

Entropy is the price of structure. — Ilya Prigogine

They can see everything they want to, but never forget that they cannot see beyond the distortion of their imagination where there is no color and everything exists in black and white. And that is why we will survive, because they do not have what is necessary to defeat us. The real war is between our imagination and theirs, what we can see and what they are blinded to. Do not despair. None of them can see far enough, and so long as we do not let them violate our imagination we will survive. — Lawrence Thornton

Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans. — Herman Melville

The way you engage someone's pain either reinforces their pain or helps to release it. — Bryant McGill

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

Lacey.." If it was supposed to be a protest it was a weak one. It was more groan than warning — Amy Andrews

The beginning of every government starts with the education of our youth. — Pythagoras