Heinz Pagels Quotes

#1. Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They have all that spare time.

Leon M. Lederman

#2. The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.

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#3. Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#4. Possession of a program with unique analytic capabilities puts a scientist in as much of a priveleged position to make new discoveries as the possession of a powerful telescope.

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#5. I know of nothing more moving, indeed semi-tragic, than the yearning helplessness in the face of a dog, who understands what is said to him, and can not answer!

Bayard Taylor

#6. I happen to know a bit about banking.

Justin Welby

#7. While we can prove that almost all numbers in the continuum are random, we cannot prove that any specific number is indeed random.

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

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

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#11. 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 Being or simply an experiment? The problem in trying to understand the universe is that we have nothing to compare it to.

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

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

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#14. 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.

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#15. 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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#16. 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 darkness.

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#17. Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.

Okakura Kakuzo

#18. Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge.

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#19. Sometimes I've had to put myself on a diet.

Roger Moore

#20. Socialism with a human face.

Alexander Dubcek

#21. Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.

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#22. Gravity is the curvature of space.

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

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#24. What the good Lord giveth, he also taketh away. Then he puts it back again.

James A. Owen

#25. If you think a thing is impossible,you'll only make it impossible.

Bruce Lee

#26. In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life.

Swami Vivekananda

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

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#28. The great unexplored frontier is complexity ... I am convinced that the nations and people that master the new science of Complexity will become the economic, cultural, and political superpowers of the next century.

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

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#30. I like thieves. Some of my best friends are thieves. Why, just last week we had the president of the bank over for dinner.

W.C. Fields

#31. From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Albert Camus

#32. I note the lengths to which Christianist groups are prepared to go to, to influence government and to network hate-churches in order to get their way and to rob people of their human rights, and it gives me cold chills.

Christina Engela

#33. The IMAX cameras are big and heavy. And they're loud. So you have to be mindful of whether or not they're worth it; I'd say the image quality is incredible and the scale is amazing.

Nina Jacobson

#34. Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.

John Ensign

#35. By losing myself to her, I gain her.

David Levithan

#36. There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth.

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

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