John Polkinghorne Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• Theology differs from science in many respects, because of its different subject matter, a personal God who cannot be put to the test in the way that the impersonal physical world can be subjected to experimental enquiry. Yet science and theology have this in common, that each can be, and should be defended as being investigations of what is, the search for increasing verisimilitude in our understanding of reality.

  John Polkinghorne

  Reality, Understanding, Tests

• 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

  Reality, Justice, Needs

• Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like.

  John Polkinghorne

  Moving, Reality, Thinking

• 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

  Believe, Reality, World

• 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

  Reality, Unity, Passionate

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