"If the experience of science teaches anything, it's……" — John Polkinghorne
"If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that."
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33 Quotes by John Polkinghorne
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- When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that…
- Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's…
- The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'.…
- 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…
- Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality…
- I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of…
- The remarkable insights that science affords us into the intelligible workings of the world cry out for an explanation more…
- Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not…
- Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for…
- I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and…