John Polkinghorne Quotes


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.


Citations

Polkinghorne, John. The God of Hope and the End of the World. Yale University Press, 2002, p. 140.

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John Polkinghorne
John Polkinghorne
  • Born: October 16, 1930
  • Died: March 9, 2021
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Physicist, Priest, Writer

John Charlton Polkinghorne KBE FRS was an English theoretical physicist, theologian, and Anglican priest. A prominent and leading voice explaining the relationship between science and religion, he was Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Cambridge from 1968 to 1979, when he resigned his chair to study for the priesthood, becoming an ordained Anglican priest in 1982. He served as the president of Queens' College, Cambridge, from 1988 until 1996.