(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.

The world is richer than it is possible to express in any single language.

The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero.

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

We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate

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 main character of any living system is openness.

Entropy is the price of structure.

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.

The real is only one realization of the possible.

That's the source of the meditation on death I've carried in my heart all my life.

... To be in time means to change.

In 1960-61, a small group of female pilots went through many of the same medical tests as the Mercury astronauts and scored very well on them - in fact, better than some of the astronauts did.

Mediocrity is contextual.

I find it hard to argue with Reagan's old slogan: Trust, but verify.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Everything starts with one step, or one brick, or one word or one day

Here was a corporation behaving like a monster though the individuals who owned its stock were human cultivated men. A corporation has no soul.

The target for a retracement following a fifth wave often is doubly indicated by the end of the preceding fourth wave and the 382 retracement point.

Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.