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.
John PolkinghorneThe physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth.
John PolkinghorneWhitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.
John Polkinghorne