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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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Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling…
— John Polkinghorne
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According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large…
— Brian Greene
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Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. I don't know why. Is…
— Richard P. Feynman
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We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of…
— Rachel Carson
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Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important…
— Dennis Prager
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It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific…
— Michael Crichton
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Science can have a purifying effect on religion, freeing it from beliefs of a pre-scientific age and helping us to a truer…
— Nevill Francis Mott
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What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a scientific age? It is this problem which…
— John Gresham Machen
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As long as the sun shall rise goes the old lover's vow, but we are children of a scientific age and have…
— Ritu Ghatourey
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