Twenty-six attempts preceded the present genesis, all of which were destined to fail. The world of men has arisen out of chaotic heart of the preceding debris; he too is exposed to the risk of failure, and the return to nothing. "Let's hope it works" [Halway Sheyaamod] exclaimed God as he created the World, and this hope, which has accompanied all the subsequent history of the world and mankind, has emphasized right from the outset that this history is branded with the mark of radicall uncertainity. (Talmud, as quoted in A. Neher, "Vision du temps et de l'histoire dans la culture juive", quoted as a note #24 in the Conclusion of - "Order out of Chaos" by Ilya Prigogine) ...

Under the title "La nouvelle alliance", its appearance in France in 1979 triggered a marvelous scientific free-for-all among prestigious intellectuals in fields as diverse as entomology and literary criticism.
It is a measure of America's insularity and cultural arrogance that this book, which is either published or about to be published in twelve languages, has taken so long to cross the Atlantic. (from the Foreword by Alvin Toffler)

Newton dynamics, as opposed to Boltzman termodynamics: deterministic/probabilistic, reversible/irreversible. Autocatalytic chemical reactions, non-linear. Morphogenesis: spatial distribution of enzymes, gradient controls protein synthesis. Time, Second Law, broken symmetry: Time as a Broken Symmetry  ¶ 9:37 PM