"The more we know about our universe, the more difficult it becomes to believe in determinism."

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Source : Ilya Prigogine, Isabelle Stengers (1997). “The End of Certainty”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

Ilya Prigogine

#Believe Quotes #Difficult Quotes #Determinism Quotes

“He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.”
“If you give your trust to a person who does not deserve it, you actually give him the power to destroy you.”
“If you're talking 100 years, there's no doubt in my mind that all jobs will be gone, including creative ones. And 100 years is not far in the future - some of our children will be alive in 100 years.”
“I always begin to compose the melody first.”
“It's one of the biggest problems with the system now. Vague regulations leave the system open to abuse.”

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“Kindness is the highest form of intelligence.”
“My mic is a Magnum. See me and this chick, we go back like Cro-Magnon. Man...we did it in the back of your Magnum; I said, 'Put them Lifestyles back, give me the Magnums.'”
“Tell them I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word," he said. Never the least stir made the listeners, Though every word he spake Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house From the one man left awake: Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup, And the sound of iron on stone, And how the silence surged softly backward, When the plunging hoofs were gone.”

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