Heinz Pagels Quotes
The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.
There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth.
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
As I continued to fall into the dark void, embraced by the vault of the heavens, I sang to the beauty of the stars and made my peace with the darkness.
Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity.
Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.
Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.
Possession of a program with unique analytic capabilities puts a scientist in as much of a priveleged position to make new discoveries as the possession of a powerful telescope.
Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge.
Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the very young but never their actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.
While we can prove that almost all numbers in the continuum are random, we cannot prove that any specific number is indeed random.
