Ilya Prigogine

“In an isolated system, the entropy can only increase.”

“The main character of any living system is openness.”

“We are at a turning point in the history of science.”

“The universe is a universe of becoming, not of being.”

“Being and becoming are not to be opposed to each other; they express two related aspects of reality.”

“Probability is not an expression of our ignorance, but an expression of the nature of things.”

“The real lesson to be drawn from the uncertainty principle is that the classical ideal of determinism is an illusion.”

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

“The arrow of time is the manifestation of the fact that the future is not given, that it is being created.”

“Thermodynamics is the science of the universal laws of change.”

“We see now that we are embedded in a world of fluctuations.”

“The problem of time is a problem of our own existence.”

“The irreversible character of time is a condition of our existence.”

“Man is a part of nature, and his creative activity is a part of nature's activity.”

“Order and chaos are not contradictory, but are two faces of reality.”

“Time is a construction, but a construction that is essential for understanding nature.”

“We grow in time, and this is the promise of the future.”

“Creativity is the very essence of life.”

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