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, Thermodynamics of Evolution (1972)

Source: http://blog.rudnyi.ru/2013/04/thermodynamics-of-evolution.html

Cited via Evgenii Rudnyi's 2013 blog post.

Topics: complexity