Ilya Prigogine: Quotes about laws

Ilya Prigogine was physical chemist. Explore interesting quotes on law.

Ilya Prigogine: 34 quotes0 likes

“The problem of time in physics and chemistry is closely related to the formulation of the second law of thermodynamics. Therefore another possible title of this lecture could have been: “the macroscopic and microscopic aspects of the second law of thermodynamics””

Ilya Prigogine

Source: Time, Structure and Fluctuations (1977), p. 1; Introduction.

“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

Part 1; Cited in: Evgenii Rudnyi (2013) " Thermodynamics of evolution http://blog.rudnyi.ru/2013/04/thermodynamics-of-evolution.html" on blog.rudnyi.ru, April 20, 2013. · <br class="br">Thermodynamics of Evolution (1972)

“We have seen that the formation and maintenance of self-organizing systems are compatible with the laws of physical chemistry.”

Ilya Prigogine

Part 2; Cited in: Evgenii Rudnyi (2013).
Thermodynamics of Evolution (1972)

“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

Source: Time, Structure and Fluctuations (1977), p. 1; Introduction.