Heinz Pagels
Heinz Pagels
Heinz Rudolf Pagelswas an American physicist, an adjunct professor of physics at Rockefeller University, the executive director and chief executive officer of the New York Academy of Sciences, and president of the International League for Human Rights. He is best known to the general public for his popular science books The Cosmic Code, Perfect Symmetry, and The Dreams of Reason: The Computer and the Rise of the Sciences of Complexity...
science organization religion
The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.
science moral helping
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
religious writing science
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.
numbers prove continuum
While we can prove that almost all numbers in the continuum are random, we cannot prove that any specific number is indeed random.
numbers want information
Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.
vacuums study theory
Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.
shows
Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it.