Quotes from 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 darkness.

The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.

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

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.

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

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

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

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