The main character of any living system is openness.

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.

Entropy is the price of structure.

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

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

The real is only one realization of the possible.

You will not be able to effectively utilize your inherited wealth if you do not work diligently

The ideas are louder when there are fewer of them.

May all humankind find the grace of goodwill.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist.

Trust that life is guiding you and showing you every step that is necessary to learn to be perfect. Have faith in yourself. You'll come through OK. Have faith in existence.

Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again.

It's hard to know really how it's going to happen, but the career ebbs and flows and now there's a nicer feeling of interest than there has been at other times.

History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.