C Quotes
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“Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something and give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing.”
“Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something & give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing.”
“Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817)”
“Creation requires cruelty; beauty eats what it needs.”
Source: Anatomy of Faith
“Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our entire intellectual heritage-good teaching-than a bill forcing our honorable teachers to sully their sacred trust by granting equal treatment to a doctrine not only known to be false, but calculated to undermine any general understanding of science as an enterprise?.”
“Creation sleeps! 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause,- An awful pause! prophetic of her end.”
Source: The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author
“Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad science and bad religion.”
Source: A Short History Of Myth
“Creation takes things forward. Without anything new there is no progress. Creation equals new.”
“Creation was given to people as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into people's souls. Sun and moon, night and day, rain, sea, the crops, the flowering tree, all these things were transparent. They spoke to people not of themselves but only of Him who made them. Nature was symbolic. But the progressive degradation of humans led them further and further from this truth. Nature became opaque.”
“Creation was not finished at the dawn of this earth, but creation continues, and we have a lot to do to make the world a better place.”
“Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.”
“Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!”
Source: Preface to Dr. Brooke's natural history. Introduction to a new History of the world. Preface to the Roman history. Preface to the History of England. Preface to An history of the earth. Preface to the Beauties of English poetry. Preface to a collection of poems for young ladies, devotional, moral, and entertaining. Dr. Aikin's Critical dissertation on the poetry of Dr. Goldsmith. Poems. Dramatic : The good-natur'd man. She stoops to conquer
“Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“Creation, even when it is a mere outpouring from the heart, wishes to find a public. By definition, creation is sociable. Yet it can be satisfied with merely one single reader: an old friend, a lover.”
“Creation, like destruction, always seems to get a little out of hand; otherwise it could hardly be called creative.”
“creation, like vengeance, is God's. It is dangerous when man tampers with it.”
“Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use all sorts of strategems which in the end prove completely incapable of staving off chaos.”
“Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was not in existence, and that it made its appearance in six days (or instantaneously, if that is preferred), in consequence of the volition of some preexisting Being.”
“Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.”
“Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant.”
“Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day.”
“Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.”
Source: Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history
“Creationists and Holocaust deniers are both very similar - both are denying what is a perfectly manifest fact. In the case of Holocaust deniers it's more recent history, but in both cases the evidence - in favour of the Holocaust and evolution - is simply overwhelming. That doesn't mean they are morally or politically equivalent. But they are equivalent in denying history.”
“Creationists are possibly gaining more political power. In the U.S., you are constantly hearing stories of school boards harassing teachers and trying to get textbooks banned.”
“Creationists argue that natural selection is only a negative process, and therefore cannot create anything. Chopra argues that skepticism is only a negative process, and therefore does not lead to knowledge. Both are wrong for the same reasons. They ignore the generation of diversity and new ideas upon which natural selection and skepticism acts. Weeding out the unfit is critical to both - natural selection allows evolution to proceed, and skepticism allows science to advance.”
“Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.”
Source: The God Delusion
“Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible complexity' and the 'abrupt appearance' of life-yet more jargon for 'God did it.' ... Notice that they have no interest in replacing evolution with native American creation myths or including the Code of Hammarabi alongside the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools.”
“Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible complexity' and the 'abrupt appearance' of life—yet more jargon for 'God did it.' ... Notice that they have no interest in replacing evolution with native American creation myths or including the Code of Hammurabi alongside the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools.”
“Creationists have an argument not with science, but with argument.”
Source: The Single Helix
“Creationists have long held that evolutionary theory is atheistic; defenders of the theory do the theory no favor when they agree.”
“Creationists hold to an Ice Age that was triggered by the Flood. The Flood occurred about 2348 b.c., which is about 4,300 years ago.1 The secularists’ most recent ice age was supposedly about 10,000 years ago (by their dating system).”
Source: A Flood of Evidence: 40 Reasons Noah and the Ark Still Matter
“Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.”
“Creationists often appeal to the facts of science to support their view, and evolutionists often appeal to philosophical assumptions from outside science.”
“Creationists reject Darwin's theory of evolution on the grounds that it is "just a theory". This is a valid criticism: evolution is indeed merely "a theory", albeit one with ten billion times more credence than the theory of creationism - although, to be fair, the theory of creationism is more than just a theory. It's also a fairy story. And children love fairy stories, which is presumably why so many creationists are keen to have their whimsical gibberish taught in schools.”
“Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination”
“Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever changing guises.”
“Creations, whether they are children, poems, or organizations, take on a life of their own.”
Source: Spiral Dance: Slipcase
“Creative ability is often mistakenly attributed to inborn talent. It is about all the ability to connect one thing with another.”
“Creative accounting is an absolute curse to a civilization. One could argue that double-entry bookkeeping was one of history's great advances. Using accounting for fraud and folly is a disgrace. In a democracy, it often takes a scandal to trigger reform. Enron was the most obvious example of a business culture gone wrong in a long, long time.”
“Creative action plays with the unknown. But as the child fears the dark... the adult child will be fearful too, faced with the dark world of the unknown mind, with vast concepts looking enormous just beyond the front yard.”
“Creative activity at the grassroots is the basic factor of the new public life. Let the workers set up workers' control at their factories. Let them supply the villages with manufactures in exchange for grain […] Socialism cannot be decreed from above. Its spirit rejects the mechanical bureaucratic approach: living creative socialism is the product of the masses themselves.”
Source: Collected Works, Volume 26: September 1917-February 1918
“Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing.”
Source: Education of Vision
“Creative activity is one of the few self rewarding activities. Being creative is like being in love!”
“Creative and action are synonymous. You can't be creative. Without taking action.”
“Creative art is the power to be for a moment a flash of communication between God and man.”
“Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.”
“Creative artists have great passion.”
“Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.”
“Creative arts, new inventions, and new ideas spring from those blessed with imagination, and magic stimulates imagination. It is no coincidence that many artists, writers, and dancers are interested in magic.”
“Creative avoidance is the type of procrastination that affects home business entrepreneurs the most. It is unconsciously filling our day with trivial, unimportant work.”