Quote by John Polkinghorne
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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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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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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Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good. – John Charles Polanyi

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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them. – Neils Bohr

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In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology. – Shimon Peres

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It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat. – Mary Douglas

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In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks, and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature. – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), “Of Reading and Writing,” Thus Spake Zara

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