Quotes About Creation

In my experience, committees can criticize, but they cannot create. 'Search the parks in all your cities You'll find no statues of committees.

Engineering or Technology is the making of things that did not previously exist, whereas science is the discovering of things that have long existed.

Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty! All Thy works shall praise Thy name, in earth, and sky, and sea; Holy, holy, holy; merciful and mighty! God in three Persons, blessed Trinity! Amen. —REGINALD HEBER (1783–1826)

If god created man in his own image, how come I'm not invisible?

It is said that God left the northernmost point of the earth unfinished; for, He said, "Whosoever professes he is equal to Me, let him come and complete this land, which I have left unfinished; thus will all know he is My equal." —The Talmud I POSTWAR

Nothing we design or make ever really works??? Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.

Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species. Description or law, it challenged the theory of special creation and bruited the idea of evolution in a tone of thunderous innuendo.

Appearances have enormous importance, Mr. Kessler. The creation and maintenance of appearances. Appearances govern.

Cualquiera que defienda el diseño inteligente en lugar de la evolución debería pararse a pensar en por qué Dios habría dedicado tal parte de Su inteligencia a diseñar los parásitos de la malaria.

Alternatively, anyone who favors Intelligent Design in lieu of evolution might pause to wonder why God devoted so much of His intelligence to designing malarial parasites.

Northrop Frye said that a poet is a myth's way of making another myth.

All things human begin with words.

When you're making something, you're in a different state. You go into a deep level of concentration, to the point where you're not self-conscious anymore, it's just flowing out of you.

God made your body, mind, and soul. And He isn't done with you; He is still making you. God is making you braver, stronger, purer, more peaceful, more loving, less selfish - the kind of person you've perhaps always wanted to be.

The rocks don't lie: He was here, and he came because God and Nature are One.

The great thinkers of the early church wrote numerous commentaries on the creation story in Genesis 1–3, more so than any other part of the Bible, because they understood that it contradicted the fundamental beliefs of their inherited pagan culture and challenged them to replace it with something that was true to reality.

The most convincing works tend to be those in which the thinking is inseparable from the doing.

Artists, on the other hand, talk to determine what works, what does not, and why. Their focus is more on the micro; it moves from the inside out.

autobiography is concerned with the consciousness of its creator in the process of creating himself.

Mind can easily explain matter. Matter cannot explain mind at all. How do you get to mind from mindless matter? It's impossible. But mind can create "matter", or what passes as matter, routinely. It does it every time we dream.

Multiverse theorists are certainly stark mad. They cannot make a worm, yet they will be making entire universes without a second thought.

What is a dream? It's an externalized thought, a projected thought. The mind makes a world that seems separate from the mind, but is in fact wholly contained by the mind and vanishes when the mind ceases to think about it. The universe itself is just the same. It's a projected thought. It is born in mind, and mind can end it, and eventually does. Then starts it up again. A new dream is launched.

I'm coding an artisanal consciousness.

The mind is an organ of creation; it organizes matter and energy, manipulates time and space. It organizes chaos into narrative.