Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.

- Heinz Pagels

The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries …

- Heinz Pagels

What is the universe? Is it a great 3D movie in which we are the unwilling actors? Is it a cosmic joke, a giant computer, a work of art by a Supreme …

- Heinz Pagels

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

- Heinz Pagels

Science is not the enemy of humanity but one of the deepest expressions of the human desire to realize that vision of infinite knowledge. Science sho…

- Heinz Pagels

The great unexplored frontier is complexity ... I am convinced that the nations and people that master the new science of Complexity will become the …

- Heinz Pagels

A good simulation, be it a religious myth or scientific theory, gives us a sense of mastery over experience. To represent something symbolically, as …

- Heinz Pagels

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 darknes…

- Heinz Pagels

We surely stand at the threshold of a great adventure of the human spiritó a new synthesis of knowledge, a potential integration of art and science, …

- Heinz Pagels