Heinz R. Pagels

“The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.”

“Imagination is the single most important asset of a scientist.”

“Science is not the enemy of humanity but one of its deepest expressions.”

“The universe is a single multiform energetic unfolding of matter, mind, intelligence and life.”

“The capacity to doubt is the greatest human virtue.”

“This new physics suggests that the world is not a fixed, objective reality, but is constantly being created by our acts of observation.”

“The modern physicist is a reluctant mystic.”

“The path to the gates of quantum reality is the act of measurement.”

“The universe is a story that we are just beginning to learn how to read.”

“We are living in a time of a new Copernican revolution—a revolution in our understanding of the origin and nature of the universe as a whole.”

“A common sense interpretation of the world has no place in quantum mechanics.”

“Science offers the boldest and grandest possible vision of the world.”