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[Unedited] John Polkinghorne with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

CHAPTER

The Importance of Ambiguity in Life

There's a very interesting scientific insight, which says that regions where real novelty occurs are always the edge of chaos. They are regions where cloudiness and clearness, order and disorder interlace each other. If you're too much on the orderly side of that borderline, everything is so rigid that nothing really new happens. And I think that reflects itself in both in the development of life and in many, many human decisions. There's also something going on in the created world, in the world, including human beings' interaction with nature at any given time, that there are sort of competing freedoms.

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