Heinz R. Pagels

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

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

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

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.

History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and then put them down on paper.

In my 20 years as a photographer, covering conflicts from Bosnia to Gaza to Iraq to Afghanistan, injured civilians and soldiers have passed through my life many times.