Quotes About Creation

We make versions, and true versions make worlds.

The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.

The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife is a universal means of resolving all knots.

We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.

We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world.

Sometimes, even by accident, the universe makes beauty, and we can stand back in awe of it. Even better - we can figure out why. Science! I love this stuff.

The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it what a flower or an insect does in comparison with the Earth.

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

Every new discovery of science is a further 'revelation' of the order which God has built into His universe.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.

Its the fate of all creators: They fall in love with their creations.

The most satisfactory definition of man from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker.

But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion.

All I ever aim to do is to put the Development hypothesis in the same coach as the creation one. It will only be a question of who is to ride outside & who in after all.

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets: then the monster, then the man.

The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first.

Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.

Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.

We are made of starstuff.

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.