"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
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Experience
More From John Polkinghorne
- "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."
- "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."
- "Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science’s story."
More In Experience
- "War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."― Desiderius Erasmus
- "When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience."― David Antin
- "Marimba is much more of a wood-type experience and there is no real possibility of getting a dry sound, and getting that contrast in the same way that you can in a vibraphone."― Evelyn Glennie