Creation Quotes

2803 Creation quotes by 1707 unique authors

The first entirely vital action, so termed because it is not effected outside the influence of life, consists in the creation of the glycogenic material… — Claude Bernard
The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops. Emergence results in… — Fritjof Capra
Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could there be in God which… — Johannes Kepler
God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all… — Seneca the Younger
It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and… — Isaac Newton
We have already considered with disfavour the possibility of the universe having been planned by a biologist or an engineer; from the intrinsic evidence of… — James Jeans
Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history. — Charles Lyell
The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural philosophy, mathematical and… — Thomas Paine
Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science. — Alfred North Whitehead
So far from science being irreligious, as many think, it is the neglect of science that is irreligious-it is the refusal to study the surrounding… — Herbert Spencer
If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic which, in my… — Claude Bernard
Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to Sir Isaac Newton] the whole of his Hypothesis, scil that the gravitation was reciprocall to the square… — John Aubrey
Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space. — Nicholas Murray Butler
No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They began to be,… — Hugh Miller
I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and women of goodwill:… — Pope Francis
Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach… — Adam Sedgwick
I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and… — G. H. Hardy
When you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm the mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right now you feel… — Sri Chinmoy
Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It is… — Pema Chodron
The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would… — Stephen Hawking
Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when… — James Clerk Maxwell
There are good reasons to believe in God, including the existence of mathematical principles and order in creation. They are positive reasons, based on knowledge,… — Francis Collins
A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of… — Charles Darwin
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death. — Lucretius

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