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Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.

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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…
Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling…
The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter…
Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.
I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.
Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they…
Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum…
I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience…
The remarkable insights that science affords us into the intelligible workings of the world cry out for an explanation more profound than…
Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to…
Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries…
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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I believe in God. In fact, I believe in a personal God who acts in and interacts with the creation. I believe… — William Daniel Phillips
Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe. — John Polkinghorne
I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its… — Unknown Author
In the physical universe, there are objects that include suns, planets, all life, and all matter in all dimensions. And then there… — Steve Vai
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing… — Paul Lockhart
Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't possible, but… — Stanley Schmidt
The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man's real… — Sri Aurobindo
The keystone of the entire structure of the spiritual and physical universe is Rhythmic Balanced Interchange between all opposites. — Walter Russell
In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it. — Deepak Chopra
Life is not mean, it is grand; if it is mean to any, he or she makes it so. God made it… — Orison Swett Marden
In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it. This doesn't mean you give… — Deepak Chopra
The physical universe expresses the conscious and unconscious thoughts of mortals. — Mary Baker Eddy

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