I will not forget the instinctive wisdom of the friend who, every day for those first few weeks, brought me a quart container of scallion-and-ginger congee from Chinatown. Congee I could eat. Congee was all I could eat.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

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.

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.

Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it&#39;s something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.

John Polkinghorne

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Written By John Polkinghorne

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Written By John Polkinghorne

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