Author: John Polkinghorne

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Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.

Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.

- John Polkinghorne

I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.

I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.

- John Polkinghorne

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.

- John Polkinghorne

However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.

However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.

- John Polkinghorne

It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.

It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.

- John Polkinghorne

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.

- John Polkinghorne

Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.

Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.

- John Polkinghorne

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.

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

I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.

I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.

- John Polkinghorne

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