Ilya Prigogine

1917–2003 · Russian-Belgian physical chemist

Topics: complexity

• The ideas of nonequilibrium order and of the search for stability extend Darwin’s concept back to the prebiotic stage by redefining the “fittest”.

  — Ilya Prigogine

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

  — Ilya Prigogine

• Entropy is the price of structure

  — Ilya Prigogine