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"Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand."
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"A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense."
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"I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder."
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"A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it."
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"For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality."
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"We have a great sense of togetherness. It is our team spirit that has taken us to this World Cup."
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"There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense."
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"It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner."
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"Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour."
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"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."
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"In a certain sense the Good is comfortless."
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"Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything."
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"However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature."
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"So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world."
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"I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else."
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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 think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like."
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"I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years."
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"Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe."
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"After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life."
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"Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent."
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"Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything."
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