Quotes About Creation

when a lemur makes a human, it doesn't matter how many lemur chains and lemur rules and lemur constraints she imposes. She's simply, computationally incapable of seeing all the angles that her smarter creation can take in at a glance.

You never finish a book. You only abandon it.

Pico argued that, unlike all the rest of creation, mankind has been assigned no fixed role by God, but is free to create its own identity and its own future, even aspiring to divinity itself.

Al' iako ja sam stvor sazdan od zemlje, uporna mi ?ežnja potje?e sa zvijezda." VII

Meçhulün karn?ndan istedi?imiz çocuklar? do?urtabiliriz.

The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

If, as some savants of consciousness suggest, we are actually agreeing to create, from moment to moment, everything we perceive as real, then it stands to reason that we're also responsible for keeping it going in some harmonious manner.

Sure, black holes can kill us, and in a variety of interesting and gruesome ways. But, all in all, we may owe our very existence to them.

While he was at Oxford University his fascination for the Anglo-Saxon period intensified. It was a couplet from Cynewulf's poem 'Crist', which ran: 'Hail, Earendel, brightest of angels, over Middle Earth sent to men', that inspired his creation of the imaginary world that would form the setting for most of his writing.

the universe must have been created by an all-powerful prime mover who, however, took no interest in his handiwork.

Nobody writes a book. What you write every day is a piece of a book, a fragment, a scene.

If the opening chapters of Genesis portray God as a creative artist, then it only stands to reason that the people he made in his image will also be artists. Art is an imaginative activity, and in the act of creating, we reflect the mind of our Maker.

Why does God call people to be artists? Because he is an Artist, and we are made in his image. When we first meet the God of the Bible, he is busy making things and calling them good. Thus it is only natural for him to take some of the people that he has made, call them to be artists, and hold them to an aesthetic standard.

When a mind is in love with Jesus, this is what it sees: a world full of the wonders he has made.

God's careful instructions for building the tabernacle remind us that his perfection sets the standard for whatever we create in his name.

There is a certain transcendent joy in creating a thing of beauty. But even more fulfilling is to become a being of beauty.

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

It is no idle phrase that man was made in God's image. There is something worth saving in the worst of us, and out of this something a new man may be fashioned.

You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.