"We might say that we were looking for global schemas, symmetries, universal and unchanging laws - and what we have discovered is the mutable, the ephemeral, the complex." --Ilya Prigogine
2006-07-30 16:43:59 · 15 answers · asked by askandanswer 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
We are looking for harmony, balance and stability, but what we are finding is that there are no simple answers to which these inquiries can be based on. The young see life as black and white, but age and maturity shows us that life is a big gray area which is very interpretive.
2006-07-30 16:52:43 · answer #1 · answered by The Good Humor Man 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Physics Chemist and Nobel prize winner llya Prigogine wasn't talking about space. In his ground breaking book "Theory of Dissipative Structures" he was talking about systems. Human systems. Read some of it, its fun in a strange sort of way.
2006-07-30 17:02:10 · answer #2 · answered by cuttlekid 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's saying what was sought is found, but what is found was never sought.
They set out with the intention of finding governing laws of man and nature, places where there are mirrors between the two.
But what was found was inconsistency and instability.
But in reality the laws of instability were what were always being looked for.
Very existential. Fun stuff
2006-07-30 16:50:17 · answer #3 · answered by John 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dang - We ain't in Kansas any more Toto
Newton was wrong we live in a Quantum Universe
Instead of Ticks on a Clockwork Orange We are Fleas on Shrodingers Cat
2006-07-30 16:46:37 · answer #4 · answered by alyxsylvr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's talking about looking for patterns and finding chaos. It hints at man's tendency to impose patterns through expectation. The mind wants things to make sense, and they generally don't.
2006-07-30 17:24:17 · answer #5 · answered by keats27 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yer, sum1 is tryin to appear clever
It does kinda make sense but only if ya have a good dictionary
2006-07-30 16:47:42 · answer #6 · answered by laylaUnplugged 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Chaos Theory is right!
2006-07-31 09:36:20 · answer #7 · answered by just me 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We want the universe to be simple and elegant but usually we find it to be complicated and random.
2006-07-30 16:48:07 · answer #8 · answered by Jay 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that we want to live in a world that is all black and white,and unchanging.But that is the oppisite of reality.
2006-07-30 16:50:07 · answer #9 · answered by authentic_nikchik 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The simple wasn't quite so simple. Things are more complicated than they seemed.
2006-07-30 16:46:46 · answer #10 · answered by Mommymonster 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋