Polkinghorne One World Quotes & Sayings

Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand. — John Polkinghorne

The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth. — John Polkinghorne

Dude," Rune said. "You're injured. We're taking you to the hospital. Would you like one of us to kick you in the head? We can get you there before you wake up." She thought her offer was pretty damn reasonable, but Jack raised his eyebrows and sighed. "What?" she asked. He grinned and winked at her. "I've got this. — Laken Cane

Phoenix wouldn't stop looking at me like he was looking through a telescope. It was unsettling, being stared at like I was the most beautiful thing in space. — Briana Pacheco

The remarkable insights that science affords us into the intelligible workings of the world cry out for an explanation more profound than that which itself can provide. Religion, if it is to take seriously its claim that the world is the creation of god, must be humble enough to learn from science what that world is actually like. The dialogue between them can only be mutually enriching. — John Polkinghorne

The easy way out is to approve an early retirement plan one year but not pay out sick and vacation time to deserving employees until three years later. Unfortunately, later is now. — Jodi Rell

I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe. — John Polkinghorne

Men drive off bridges and drink too much because of women like you. — Janet Evanovich

You can take all the precautions in the world and worry yourself like crazy, but each individual comes to this world with a life to live, no matter how long or how good or how scary it might be. — Barbara Freethy

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

Theology differs from science in many respects, because of its different subject matter, a personal God who cannot be put to the test in the way that the impersonal physical world can be subjected to experimental enquiry. Yet science and theology have this in common, that each can be, and should be defended as being investigations of what is, the search for increasing verisimilitude in our understanding of reality. — John Polkinghorne

the strangely elusive and counterintuitive character of the quantum world has encouraged some to suggest that the idea of entities like electrons which can be in unpicturable states such as superpositions of being 'here' and being 'there' is no more than a convenient manner of speaking which facilitates calculations, and that electrons themselves are not to be taken with ontological seriousness. The counterattack of the scientific realist appeals to intelligibility as the key to reality. It is precisely because the assumption of the existence of electrons allows us to understand a vast range of directly accessible phenomena - such as the periodic table in chemistry, the phenomenon of superconductivity at low temperatures and the behaviour of devices such as the laser - that we take their existence seriously. — John Polkinghorne

Anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon as it becomes collective it loses its purpose. — Rosamond Lehmann

I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live. — John Polkinghorne

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

Elements which are similar as regards their chemical properties have atomic weights which are either of nearly the same value (eg. Pt, Ir, Os) or which increase regularly (eg. K, Ru, Cs). — Dmitri Mendeleev

So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world. — John Polkinghorne

Weight justly and sell dearely. — George Herbert

Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum entities like protons and electrons. — John Polkinghorne

God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself. — John Polkinghorne

I will at least have gained one very
happy day in my life. Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a
miracle. — Paulo Coelho

Evening came, a paw, to the gray hut by the river. — William Stafford