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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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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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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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If the experience of science teaches anything, its that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that. – John Polkinghorne

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I wouldnt say Im a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, Ill want to take it further or adapt it in some way. – Gwyneth Paltrow

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People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have. – John Hodgman

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My films dont give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that theyve really been through something. – Andrea Arnold

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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe. – Florence Nightingale

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