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John Polkinghorne has 33 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to…
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Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling…
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The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter…
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Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.
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I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.
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Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they…
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Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum…
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I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience…
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The remarkable insights that science affords us into the intelligible workings of the world cry out for an explanation more profound than…
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Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to…
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Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries…
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I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should…
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy…
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According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is right in…
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China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer…
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In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.
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I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world.…
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You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.
— Deepak Chopra
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General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization:…
— Ronald Reagan
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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie…
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The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I have found…
— George S. Patton
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The Senate is now considering increasing government subsidies for corn growers to produce more ethanol. If we produce enough ethanol we can…
— Jay Leno
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I never violate an inner rhythm. I loathe to force anything. I don't know if the inner rhythm is Eastern or Western.…
— Lee Krasner
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Someone once inquired of a Far Eastern Zen master, who had a great serenity and peace about him no matter what pressures…
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