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John Polkinghorne Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: physicist
Nationality: british
Birth: October 16, 1930

Topics

Knowledge Experience Unity World Our

The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world.

Best World Fighting Forces Equipped

I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.

JoBeth Williams

Texas Connection Earth I Was Raised

I can't imagine anything worse than being just left alone, scared out of your mind.

Melissa McBride

Alone Mind Out Scared Anything Left

Women always have to have this soft, maternal, sort of - I don't know - moral center.

Women Moral Know Always Soft Center

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

Success Responsibility Quality People

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

Jorge Luis Borges

Difficult Out Carry Only Should

I've been talking about retiring for years. It's my standard answer to the question, 'What are your future plans?' The truth is, I'll always want to do things that are worthwhile or fun.

Future Truth Fun Truth Is Talking

In late 2004, I left my much-maligned home state of New Jersey for the supposedly greener pastures of Astoria, Queens. I'd finally be in the mix, living off the subway line, able to go from audition to audition during the day and from late night show to late night show in the wee hours of the morning.

Home Morning Day Night Late Living

Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.

Women Comedy Drama Lead Women Are

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

Today Politics You Rules Play Same

I think the speaker of the House in Congress should be like the Massachusetts speaker: all-powerful. He should appoint committee chairmen and remove them if they stray from the party line. He should be answerable only to the caucus, which can remove him at any time. I'd throw the seniority system out on its ear in Congress.

Thomas P. O'Neill

Time Think House Party Congress Out

After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the things they could never afford to do. All the while, I never knew that my mother was socking money away.

Mother Money Job Go Never Started

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