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Quotes About Creation

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
~ Alexander Pope
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
~ Charles Darwin
Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
When God said "Let there be light" he surely must have meant perfectly coherent light.
~ Charles Hard Townes
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature creates curved lines while humans create straight lines.
~ Hideki Yukawa
Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad science and bad religion.
~ Karen Armstrong
It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing.
~ Julian Huxley
Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space.
~ Nicholas Murray Butler
Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.
~ Charles Lyell
We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
~ Carl Sagan
One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.
~ Lee Smolin
Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.
~ Stephen Hawking
Earth's sweat, the sea.
~ Empedocles
Some piously record 'In the beginning God', but I say 'In the beginning hydrogen'.
~ Harlow Shapley
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
~ Elbert Hubbard
The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
~ Jules Verne
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
~ Albert Einstein
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Business is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.
~ Anita Roddick
More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality.
~ Robert A. Baker
Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
~ Josef Albers
Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.
~ John Polkinghorne
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
~ Thomas A. Edison