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John Polkinghorne Quotes
Page 2 of 2John Polkinghorne
October 16, 1930 -
Nationality: British
Category: Physicist
Subcategory: British Physicist
|  Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything. | | If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that. | | 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. | | I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation. | | I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else. | | Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe. |
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