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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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"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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"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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"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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"When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them."
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"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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"You can't be a model at age 60, but you certainly can be an actress."
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"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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"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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"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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"By Time and Age full many things are taught."
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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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