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… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
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… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
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
