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"I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe."
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"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."
"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."
"Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?"
"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."
"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."
"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
"Experience, derived from scientific investigation, led to all the scientific literature in history. Likewise, experience, derived from religious transcendence, led to all the religious scriptures in history. It's never the other way around."
"With action experience grows, with travel outlooks grow, and with reflections wisdom grows."
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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."
"The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth."
"Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything."
"Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science."
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