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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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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
— Josh Billings
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The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully…
— Henri Nouwen
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Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Common sense often makes a good law.
— William O. Douglas
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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…
— John Polkinghorne
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A lecturer often makes you feel dumb at one end and numb at the other.
— Evan Esar
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A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.
— Jerome K. Jerome
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It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of…
— Plutarch
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Because life doesn't work that way. You can do everything perfectly. Do everything you think you're supposed to be doing. Fulfill every…
— David Baldacci
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