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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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Asa Don Brown

"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

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Asa Don Brown

"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

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Asa Don Brown

"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

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Asa Don Brown

"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

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Asa Don Brown

"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

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Asa Don Brown

"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

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Asa Don Brown

"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

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Asa Don Brown

"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

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Asa Don Brown

"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

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Asa Don Brown

"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."

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John Polkinghorne
"Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe."

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John Polkinghorne
"Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about."

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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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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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John Polkinghorne
"Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story."

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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
"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
"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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John Polkinghorne
"I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation."

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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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