#course

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#clauses #coherent #context #discourse #each

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#contexts #discourse #fruitful #normal #requires

The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

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

— John Polkinghorne

#course #earth #evolution #here #life

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

#beings #billion #course #culture #deny

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

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#course #creatures #cruel #extraordinarily #little

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#any #course #created #each #had

George Lucas was casting about and had heard favourable things about my work in Clockwork Orange and asked me to come in, which of course I did even though no one knew what the film was about! ↗

— David Prowse

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