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John Polkinghorne

"Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum entities like protons and electrons."

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"Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum entities like protons and electrons."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, "Does this suck?" and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, "I'm on fire, I'm amazing!" and I don't think that's the way to work."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"And it took me about 11 years to get a record deal, and I just had to work around and come to terms with the fact that what I was doing was going to be different, and I just had to wait until somebody was ready to jump on the bandwagon."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"The world is sick of big IT things that don't work."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot movie. It's about doing good work."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone."

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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."

Work

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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."

Science

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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."

God

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