Heinz Pagels Science Quotations

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.

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 own. But with this appropriation comes the realization that we have denied the immediacy of reality and that in creating a substitute we have but spun another thread in the web of our grand illusion.

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.