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John Polkinghorne

"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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"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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Jonathan Safran Foer

"A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"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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Jonathan Safran Foer

"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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Jonathan Safran Foer

"For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"We have a great sense of togetherness. It is our team spirit that has taken us to this World Cup."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"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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Jonathan Safran Foer

"Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"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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Jonathan Safran Foer

"In a certain sense the Good is comfortless."

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John Polkinghorne
"Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything."

God

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John Polkinghorne
"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."

Life

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John Polkinghorne
"So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world."

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John Polkinghorne
"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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John Polkinghorne
"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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John Polkinghorne
"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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John Polkinghorne
"Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe."

Life

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John Polkinghorne
"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."

Life

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John Polkinghorne
"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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John Polkinghorne
"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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