Quotes About Creation

Biblical commentators [say that] the first six days of Genesis were six 24-hour days. This means that whoever was in charge recorded the passage of 24 hours per day. But who was there to measure the passage of time? Until Adam appeared on day six, God was watching the clock. And that is the key.

The lack of repetition has not stopped scientists from speculating on the causes of the two most fundamental phenomena crucial to our existence: the big-bang creation of the universe and the origin of life from nonliving matter. Were these miracles? After all, they were both onetime events.

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

He walked through the woods like a young Adam, naming creation.

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Science is uneasy with beginnings. Mythology is concerned above all with what happened "in the beginning". Its signature is "Once upon a time".

There never was such beauty in another man. Nature made him, and then broke the mould.

Let each man think himself an act of God. His mind a thought, his life a breath of God.

The first man is of the earth, earthy.

Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels.

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture - and very much to our credit.

Sunrise: day's great progenitor.

The mother of all living.

A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it.

Mozart is the human incarnation of the divine force of creation.

Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field.

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

The image of God cut in ebony.

There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something, then disseminating it.

Genius begins great works, labor alone finishes it.