The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.
The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries … - 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
Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information. - Heinz Pagels
Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.
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
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 …
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts. - Heinz Pagels
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
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
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…
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
The great unexplored frontier is complexity ... I am convinced that the nations and people that master the new science of Complexity will become the …
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
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 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
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, …
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
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…
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