Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge.
Heinz PagelsTheoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.
Heinz PagelsPossession 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.
Heinz PagelsThe 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 Pagels