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I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didnt leave science be

I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didnt leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt Id done my bit for it after about twenty-five years. – John Polkinghorne

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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. – 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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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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