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If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.
— Jeannette Rankin
It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.
— John Polkinghorne
So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.
— John Polkinghorne
We do not need to become unhappy just because things don't go our way.
— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.
— John Polkinghorne
Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.
— John Polkinghorne
At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.
— John Polkinghorne
Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.
— John Polkinghorne
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
God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show.
— John Polkinghorne
The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.
— John Polkinghorne
Epistemology models ontology.
— John Polkinghorne
All kinds of indications will come from above and whatever you do must be referred to the Above.
— Sri Aurobindo
I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.
— John Polkinghorne
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660 to 1783,
— Scott Miller
You look like trouble. When I was growing up, my mother used to tell me to never trust a redhead.
— Tarryn Fisher
Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.
— John Polkinghorne
Hug me till you drug me, honey;
Kiss me till I'm in a coma. — Aldous Huxley
Kiss me till I'm in a coma. — Aldous Huxley
It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important.
— Brandon Sanderson
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
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
One day you're in. The next day you're out.
— Heidi Klum
Bad sex is a fuckin' myth, like a goddamned legendary creature in some fuckin' sappy fairytale.
— Jenn Cooksey
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
You do not find the happy life. You make it.
— Camilla Eyring Kimball
If you're not a curious person, you're certainly not going to be a good photographer.
— Elliott Erwitt
Hair of the dog and to keep me company I made a drink.
— James Kirkwood Jr.
Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.
— John Polkinghorne