Entropy is the price of structure.

The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years during which prebotic evolution occurred.

The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.

The main character of any living system is openness.

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

The irreversibility of time is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos.

(1) irreversible processes are as real as reversible ones. (2) irreversible processes play a fundamental constructive role in the physical world. (3) irreversibility is deeply rooted in dynamics.