"Entropy is the price of structure."

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Source : "Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature". Book by Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers (pp. 283-284), 1984.

Ilya Prigogine

#Structure Quotes #Entropy Quotes

“Regardless of how badly you handled yesterday, today provides a fresh opportunity to do things right!”

Source : Twitter post from May 17, 2013
“One of the techniques terrorists employ is to allege torture and mistreatment when they are captured, regardless of whether it is true.”
“It is important to be chic.”
“I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.”
“One does not always sing out of happiness.”
“Our media, which is like a planetary nervous system, are far more sensitive to breakdowns than to breakthroughs. They filter out our creativity and successes, considering them less newsworthy than violence, war, and dissent. When we read newspapers and watch television news, we feel closer to a death in the social body than to an awakening.”
“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.”

Source : Edward P. Morgan (1963). “Clearing the air”, Washington, D.C.
“The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth.”

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