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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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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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Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to sciences story. – John Polkinghorne

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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. – John Polkinghorne

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The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. – John Stuart Mill

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I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry. – George Strait

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But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc. – Bob Geldof

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Yes, Ive listened to just a few audiobooks – but hope to listen to more. Ive wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating. – Joyce Carol Oates

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