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John Polkinghorne

"Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history."

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"Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"You can't be a model at age 60, but you certainly can be an actress."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"I personally think that we can win the World Cup. We are improving with every game. With such a young average age in the squad we can only carry on improving."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"By Time and Age full many things are taught."

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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."

Metaphysics

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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."

Experience

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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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