Quote by John Polkinghorne
Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for th

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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Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world. – 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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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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Most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice. – Will and Ariel Durant, Our Oriental Heritage

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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. – Jean Genet

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Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history. – William Hague

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History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. – Konrad Adenauer

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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. – Alan Watts

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I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinsons poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano. – Gordon Getty

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The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason. – Benjamin Franklin

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Comedians walk out, get a feel for the crowd. If its not going good, we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into this thing, we will. Whatever we got to do. – Steve Harvey

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