Ilya Prigogine Quote

The functional order maintained within living systems seems to defy the Second Law; nonequilibrium thermodynamics describes how such systems come to terms with entropy.


Part 1; Cited in: Evgenii Rudnyi (2013) "Thermodynamics of evolution" on blog.rudnyi.ru, April 20, 2013. · - Thermodynamics of Evolution (1972)


The functional order maintained within living systems seems to defy the Second Law; nonequilibrium thermodynamics describes how such systems come to...

The functional order maintained within living systems seems to defy the Second Law; nonequilibrium thermodynamics describes how such systems come to...

The functional order maintained within living systems seems to defy the Second Law; nonequilibrium thermodynamics describes how such systems come to...

The functional order maintained within living systems seems to defy the Second Law; nonequilibrium thermodynamics describes how such systems come to...