Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Ilya, Viscount Prigogine, fully Ilya Romanovich Prigozhin
Russian-born naturalized Belgian Physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physical Chemistry
"Whatever we call reality, it is revealed to us only through an active construction in which we participate."
"We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate."
"The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity."
"The irreversibility of time is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos. "
"The main character of any living system is openness."