Quotes About Creation

A camel is a horse designed by committee.

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

My father's theory… was defined by a hasty press as being this—that God hid the fossils in the rocks in order to tempt geologists into infidelity.

Don't poets know it, Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers.

I forget how many thousand eggs go wrong for one codfish that gets hatched. But as Berkeley said long ago, it is idle to censure the creation as wasteful if you believe in a creator who has unlimited stuff to play with.

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.

Inside every black hole that collapses may lie the seeds of a new expanding universe.

He helped Walter Legge underwrite the creation of the Philharmonia Orchestra, and conducted its premiere concert on 25 October, 1945. Later, Legge raised the matter of Beecham's fee, to which he replied: "The privilege of directing this magnificent consort of artists is such that my pleasure would be diminished if I accepted a fee. I would, however, gladly accept a decent cigar"

Art is the perfection of nature.

The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.

To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

Light that makes things seen makes some things invisible. Were it not for darkness, and the shadow of the earth, the noblest part of creation had remained unseen, and the stars in heaven as invisible as on the fourth day, when they were created above the horizon with the sun, and there was not an eye to behold them.

Nothing is more the child of art than a garden

Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us—flesh and bone—only to be spewed out again in our own works.

Je n'écris plus, je suis écrite. (p.86)

that 'now' you're talking about hardly exists. We feel it, but it's impossible to measure. The past is always eating up the present." I stroked his hair and paused. "I think I've always loved paintings for that reason. Somebody makes a canvas in time, but after it's made, a painting stays in the present.

In these philosophies of "difference," boundaries blur, category is destabilized, and hybrids are created. Grosz

Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.

God's love does not love that which is worthy of being loved, but it creates that which is worthy of being loved.

God is love. His plan for creation can only be rooted in love. Does not that simple thought, rather than erudite reasoning, offer solace to the human heart?

The earth loveth the shower," and "the holy æther knoweth what love is." The Universe, too, loves to create whatsoever is destined to be made.

Love is the reflection of God's unity in the world of duality. It constitutes the entire significance of creation.