#heo

In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#both #catholic #century #embraced #evangelical

As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#behave #certain #comes #consistency #dimensions

All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#criminal-justice #detectives #evidence #facts #insight

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#philosophy #theology #change

So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#certain #confirm #formulated #implied #language

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

#more #objective #quantum #sense #simply

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#been #contains #left #like #object

Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#danny #element #encounters #freudian #heart

Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#baby #bisexual #come #domino #down

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. ↗

— John Piper

#reformed #theology #goals