Quote by John Polkinghorne
Im a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is

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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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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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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If merely feeling good could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. – William James

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Its really fun at night, because I can see the baby kicking. I can feel the knee or the foot. The baby is starting to get heavy, and its a really incredible feeling. Im so grateful I get to experience this. – Emily Procter

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Experience is not what happens to you its what you do with what happens to you. – Aldous Huxley

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There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. – Josh Billings

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