Heinz R. Pagels Quotes

#1. Gravity is the curvature of space.

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#2. The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

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#3. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

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#4. Without the possibility of error and real indeterminacy implied by the quantum theory, human liberty is meaningless.

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#5. The most important questions of life are, for the most part, really only problems of probability.

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

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#7. Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.

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#8. Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it.

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

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#10. Uncertainty and Complementarity It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about Nature.

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