Heinz Pagels Quotations

Heinz Pagels

"Perhaps our thinking exemplifies a selective system. First lots of random scattered ideas compete for survival. Then comes the selection for what works best —one idea dominates, and this is followed by its amplification. Perhaps the moral [...] is that you never learn anything unless you are willing to take a risk and tolerate a little randomness in your life." —Heinz Pagels, The Dreams of Reason, 1988, ISBN 0-553-34710-1

Pagels, Heinz