Quotes About Creation

In attempting to construct such machines we should not be irreverently usurping His power of creating souls, any more than we are in the procreation of children: rather we are, in either case, instruments of His will providing mansions for the souls that He creates. —Alan Turing, 1950

It is characteristic of objects of low complexity that it is easier to talk about the object than produce it and easier to predict its properties than to build it.

God creates; I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it--from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others can do.

If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished?

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it – from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do...

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

There are two kinds of creation myths: those where life arises out of the mud, and those where life falls from the sky. In this creation myth, computers arose from the mud, and code fell from the sky.

Was this his face, and these the finding eyes That plucked a new world from the rolling seas?

Soul (neeš) is not a higher part of humanity standing over against the body but designates the vitality or life principle in a person. God breathed into Adam's nostrils the breath of life, and he became a living neeš (Gen. 2:7).

'Tis God gives skill,But not without men's hands: He could not makeAntonio Stradivari's violinsWithout Antonio.

However, I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.

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.

It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!

Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind.

Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

You don't pick the family you're born into. You pick the one you make.

He was building his own castle, and for better or worse, the harpy wormed her way into his world and became its tower.

Give me matter and i will build a world out of it.