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, opening the material universe to human exploration.
Heinz PagelsI like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.
Heinz PagelsScience is not the enemy of humanity but one of the deepest expressions of the human desire to realize that vision of infinite knowledge. Science shows us that the visible world is neither matter nor spirit; the visible world is the invisible organization of energy.
Heinz PagelsTheoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.
Heinz PagelsThe world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.
Heinz Pagels