A good simulation, be it a religious myth or scientific theory, gives us a sense of mastery over experience. To represent something symbolically, as we do when we speak or write, is somehow to capture it, thus making it one's… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have books, entire libraries, made out of molecular "sentences." The universe is like a library in which the words are atoms. Just look at what has been written with these hundred words! Our own bodies are books in that… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share
What is the universe? Is it a great 3D movie in which we are the unwilling actors? Is it a cosmic joke, a giant… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being. — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
The great unexplored frontier is complexity ... I am convinced that the nations and people that master the new science of Complexity will become… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the very young but never their actual birth, which is a veiled and secret… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries ago, when some people suspended their search for absolute truth and began instead to ask how things worked, modern science was born. Curiously, it was by abandoning the search for absolute truth that science began to make progress,… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share
Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge. — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
Science is expanding, and with it our vision of the universe. although this new and constantly changing view may not always give us comfort,… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
We surely stand at the threshold of a great adventure of the human spiritó a new synthesis of knowledge, a potential integration of art… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
While we can prove that almost all numbers in the continuum are random, we cannot prove that any specific number is indeed random. — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
