John Polkinghorne Quotes
Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.
Quotes to Explore
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
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We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.
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Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
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Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'
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I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.
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That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.
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Impatience is a virtue.
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C'mon, we're actors. We love the attention. We love the applause. We sure don't like to be rejected.
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I've worked with more than 50 directors and I've paid attention since day one. That's pretty much been my education, apart from studying art history and shooting with my own cameras. I've seen 50 different sets of mistakes and 50 different ways of achieving.
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Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply ignoring religion.
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It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.
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Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.
