Quotes About Creation

The Human Words of God speak of the Creation in terms that could be understood by the men of old. There is no talk of galaxies or genes, for such terms would have confused them greatly! But must we therefore take as scientific fact the story that the world was created in six days, thus making a nonsense of observable data?

It was only a dream. It was only a larval poem. —

Pearls are congealed oyster spit.

Jon smashes things, and glues the shards into place in the pattern of breakage. I can see the appeal.

You create your own world by your inner attitude, the Gardeners used to say.

For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 'And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived in the transgression.

Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?

Rezábamos por la vacuidad, para hacernos dignas de ser llenadas: de gracia, de amor, de abnegación, de semen y de niños. Oh, Dios, Rey del universo, gracias por no haberme hecho hombre. Oh, Dios, destrúyeme. Házme fértil. Mortifica mi carne para que pueda multiplicarme. Permite que me realice…

He will exist for her at least, he will be created by her, he will have a place in her mythology after all.

My self is a thing that I must now compose...as one composes a speech. What I must present is a 'made' thing. Not something born.

God made them that way but He did not make you that way. He made you different. It's up to you to set the boundaries.

Maybe acting as if she believes in such a future will help to create it

He showed me a little thing, the quantity of a hazel nut, lying in the palm of my hand … as round as any ball. I looked at it and thought, What may this be, and I was answered generally thus: It is all that is made. I marvelled how it might last. For I thought it might fall suddenly to nothing, for little cause; and I was answered in my understanding: It lasts and ever shall, for God loves it. And so has everything its being, through the love of God.

Doing a jigsaw was not an intelligence test, or a personality assesment programme; it was a pursuit that lay somewhere between creation and imitation and discovery and reverie.

Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them.

What was true then and what is true now is that we create technology so others can create more technology.

How does contemporary technology and culture changes our understanding of what it means to be human. What is our relationship with - and responsibilities towards - that which we create.

The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge.

It's creating things that make enough money to create resources to generate new technologies to have those technologies to generate more resources so I can make more things happen.

The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.

You can use a lot of different technologies to create something that doesn't really have a lot of value.

Technology is important because it creates the future. We're able to be a part of the "next" and create things that don't exist.

Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.

First I have tried to achieve the highest quality of technical facility possible so that I have at my fingertips the availability to create anything I want. Then I paint.