“… dream of a pressure-free end state of maximum entropy in physical and social energy, in which action is neither possible nor necessary in any direction, only a kind of thermal (so-called Brownian) motion of the human "molecules" ...”

“It becomes possible to view evolution as a complex, but holistic dynamic phenomenon of a universal unfolding or order which becomes manifest in many ways, as matter and energy, information and complexity, consciousness and self-reflexion. It is no longer necessary to assume a special life force—such as Bergson’s elan vital or prana of Hinduism—separate from the physical forces.”

“I stress that neither physicalism nor vitalism play a role in [my theory]. For the life of me only the paradigm of self-organization is appropriate. I am committed to open. Despite the largely scientific content of [my theory] is humanistic in his outlook, because it is time to end the senseless separation of science and humanism. The relationships that I point out in my book are characterizable with slogans such as self-organization, coevolution, self-transcendence and creativity. From them, the image of an open, non-teleological (and not even teleonomic) evolution, the conditions at all levels is openness, and imbalance are autocatalytic self-reinforcing.”