End of the certainty

the End of the certainty is a book of Ilya Prigogine.

“These laws are incomplete, as incomplete as if they were unaware of the Gravitation or the electricity. ” (They are of course the natural laws presumedly universal, eternal and indépassables).

“The Déterminisme does not only put causes the human Liberté of it. It makes impossible the meeting of the Réalité which is the Vocation even of our Connaissance. ”

In the work entitled Irresolute Universe , Karl Popper written:
“I consider the Déterminisme Laplacian confirmed, as it seems the being by the determinism of the Théorie S physics and by their brilliant success, like the most solid and more serious obstacle on the way of an explanation and an apology for the Liberté, Créativité, and human Responsabilité. ”

Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize in 1977, takes share with the conference organized in Paris with UNESCO in September 1998:

“In a Universe which is not any more one universe of Certitude S, we restore also the concept of Valeur. What could indeed mean the concept of value in deterministic world? In fact, the former Greeks bequeathed us two ideals which guided our history: that of the intelligibility of nature (...); and that of the Democracy based on presupposed of the human Freedom, the Creativity and the Responsibility. We are, certainly, very far from the achievement of these two ideals, at least can us from now on conclude that they are not contradictory. Nature is richer, more unexpected, more complex than one had imagined at the beginning of this century. Undoubtedly we will see, at the century which comes, to develop a new concept of rationality in which " Reason " is not associated any more with " certitude" , and " Probability " with the " Ignorance ". It is within this framework that the creativity of the Nature and thus in particular that of the man find the place which returns to them. ”

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