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I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#christian #classical #creation #creator #distinction

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

— John Polkinghorne

#epistemology #faithfulness #god #model

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

#electrons #entities #like #nevertheless #physics

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

#committed #course #discoveries #einstein #enormous

People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#conceptual #course #especially #familiarize #good

Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#because #every #everything #god #great

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#congressional #equivalent #journalism #journals #laureates

If I were but a man who would be tall, I would be me. ↗

— Ryan Stiles

#man #me #tall #were #who

And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#bending #directing #i #knowing #me

By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#creating #focus #focus groups #greater #groups