John Polkinghorne Quotes

The widespread success of science is too significantan issue to be treated as if it were a happy acc...

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than tha...

Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and grea...

As a consequence, scientists who are carefully reflectiveabout their activity do not instinctively a...

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doct...

If we are seeking to serve the God of truth then we should really welcome truth from whatever source...

Claims for theoccurrence of miraculous events will have to be evaluated ona case-by-case basis. Ther...

I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scienti...

If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. T...

I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world ...

Inthe scientific community, the adjective ‘theological’ is some-times used pejoratively to refer to ...

The doctrine of creation of the kind that the Abrahamic faiths profess is such that it encourages th...