(in praise of The End of Certainty) Prigogine is a pioneer of chaos and self-organization theory, and his vision is as revolutionary and fundamental as Darwin's.

Oliver Sacks

This is an ambitious book which suggests that a new picture of the universe is emerging from the study of thermodynamics, and that this picture will heal the breach between the scientific and the poetic view of man.

John Maynard Smith, London Review of Books

An astonishingly ambitious and wide-ranging bookwhich reaches deep not only into physical and chemical theory, but also intothe history and philosophy of science

Observer

A book filled with flashing insights that subvertmany of our most basic assumptions and suggest fresh ways to think about them…brilliant, demanding, dazzling

Alvin Toffler

A passionate meditation on Man and Universe

Italo Calvino