Quotes About Creation

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

people with ADHD feel an abiding need—an omnipresent itch—to create something.

Even awake we're dreaming, always creating, always searching for some mud pie to turn into pumpkin apple chiffon.

The creation myth is a Darwinian device for survival.

Obviously no two creation stories can both be true. All of those invented by the many known thousands of religions and sects in fact have certainly been false. A great many educated citizens have realized that their own faiths are indeed false, or at least questionable in details. But they understand the rule attributed to the Roman stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger that religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

if our genes are inherited and our environment is a train of physical events set in motion before we were born, how can there be a truly independent agent within the brain? The agent itself is created by the interaction of the genes and the environment.

it is easy to forget that religious art is dedicated to the regnant creation story, that deviation from the story is not permitted, and that brutal wars have been fought to replace one story over another. The secular humanities, to put the matter plainly, must compete with organized religions and religion-like ideologies for attention and volunteer public funding. The first is free to explore and innovate; the other is not.

The idea and its supporting logic came in pieces

Who are we to destroy the planet's Creation? Each species around us is a masterpiece of evolution, exquisitely adapted to its environment. Species existing today are thousands to millions of years old. Their genes, having been tested by adversity over countless generations, engineer a staggeringly complex mix of biochemical devices that promote the survival and reproduction of the organisms carrying them.

Whoever created the world went to a lot of trouble. It would be downright rude not to go out and see as much of it as possible.

The bare, sweeping chalk downs of southern England, familiar today, are not a natural feature of the landscape: they were created by prehistoric man.

For Genesis 1, therefore, to proclaim that Israel's God is the one true God who created the sun, moon, stars, sea creatures, and all the animals would have been a countercultural and subversive message. Genesis would be highlighting how the very gods that the pagans worship are actually not deities at all, but merely creatures of Israel's God, the one and only true God!

You know...that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum -- a canvas -- a piece of film -- or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something -- that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper. the photographer begins with the finished product

Who spread its canopy? Or curtains spun?Who in this bowling alley bowled the sun?

Make me, O Lord, thy spinning-wheel complete.

The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws operate...Hydrogen bombs will not produce themselves.

The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.

God is the cause that is 'cause of itself' (essence) and the Universe is the effect existing within the cause (existence). Essence involves existence.

From the beginning, God intended for men and women to shine with dignity in their role as caretakers of the rest of creation.

The invisible realities predated the visible universe which the invisible God spoke into being by his word.

Man maketh a death which Nature never made.

Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.

Creation sleeps! 'Tis as the general pulseOf life stood still, and Nature made a pause;An awful pause! prophetic of her end.