I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.

- John Polkinghorne

When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to plant the idea that the un…

- John Polkinghorne

God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show.

- John Polkinghorne

Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.

- John Polkinghorne

The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.

- John Polkinghorne

God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself.

- John Polkinghorne

The remarkable insights that science affords us into the intelligible workings of the world cry out for an explanation more profound than that which …

- John Polkinghorne

It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.

- John Polkinghorne

Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action.... What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work for...as far as that po…

- John Polkinghorne