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So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.


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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.



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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 power lies in us.



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



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Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.



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