Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
John Polkinghorne
Born: October 16, 1930
Died: March 9, 2021 (aged 90)
Bio: John Charlton Polkinghorne was an English theoretical physicist, theologian, writer and Anglican priest.
Known for:
- Belief in God in an Age of Science (1998)
- Science and Theology (1998)
- Quantum Physics and Theology (2007)
- Questions of Truth (2009)
- Science and Religion in Quest of Truth (2011)