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Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from expe

Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They dont start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true they just hope to find out what reality is like. – John Polkinghorne

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People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science. – John Polkinghorne

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Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you cant construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history. – John Polkinghorne

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Im a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality – one world of our experience that were seeking to describe. – John Polkinghorne

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I feel that between my experience and my mothers, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are. – Cynthia Nixon

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If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands. – Bob Feller

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Ive told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that everybody is conspiring against you, because youre not necessarily able to tell whats real and whats not. – Gus Van Sant

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. – Alphonse de Lamartine

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