“Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not only being but becoming, not only geometry but ethics. It is not the answer we are after, but only how to ask the question.” AsksAnswersCreationBecomingModelsEthicsComplexityCosmosGeometryDuration Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.” IfsNamesCreationCreaturesModelsClayApprovedSigning Book:The pillow book Source: The pillow book
“Why waste words? Geometry existed before the Creation, is co-eternal with the mind of God, is God himself (what exists in God that is not God himself?): geometry provided God with a model for the Creation and was implanted into man, together with God's own likeness - and not merely conveyed to his mind through the eyes.” MenMindEyeTogetherHistoryCreationWasteEternalModelsMathematicsGeometryThrough The Eyes Author:Johannes Kepler
“Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation they're inseparable.” IdeasUsedJoyCitiesWeekMinutesCreationBrotherModelsBuiltDestructionFantasticAttractiveMy BrotherDestroyingNew ThingsInseparable Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“Concern for the fate of the great rivers of the earth must lead us to reflect soberly on the model of development which our society is pursuing. A purely economic and technological understanding of progress, to the extent that it fails to acknowledge its intrinsic limitations and to take into consideration the integral good of humanity, will inevitably provoke negative consequences for individuals, peoples and creation itself.” EarthHumanityIndividualUnderstandingWaterFateProgressFailingEconomicCreationDevelopmentModelsConsequenceConcernNegativeRiversEnvironmentalLimitationAcknowledgeConsiderationOur SocietyProvokingTechnologicalNegative Consequences Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“The power of equations lies in the philosophically difficult correspondence between mathematics, a collective creation of human minds, and an external physical reality. Equations model deep patterns in the outside world. By learning to value equations, and to read the stories they tell, we can uncover vital features of the world around us.” WorldMindHumansStoriesRealityLyingValuesDifficultCreationModelsMathematicsPatternsFeaturesCollectivesHuman MindEquationsOutside WorldCorrespondence Book:Seventeen Equations that Changed the World Source: Seventeen Equations that Changed the World
“Contemporary art and manga - what is the same about them? Nothing, right? The manga industry has a lot of talented people, but contemporary art works on more of a solitary model. No one embarks on collaboration in contemporary art in order to make money. But in the manga world, everyone is invested in collaboration. The most important point is that the manga industry constantly encourages new creations and creators.” PeopleWorldArtImportantOrderCreationIndustryModelsCreatorContemporaryMaking MoneyCollaborationSolitaryContemporary Art Author:Takashi Murakami
“Models walking down the street are very rarely recognized as such. It is often the same as it was for me: models were the school freaks. Way too thin and their eyes way too far apart. They were not the ideal. But then they put on fantastic clothes, have their make up done and you have this special beauty. It's a creation.” WayDoneEyeSchoolStreetsSpecialCreationWalkingClothesModelsIdealsFantasticFreakSpecial Beauty Author:Crystal Renn
“My ignorance would require a volume to itself. Between its covers would be preserved a record of the spurious model of all creation I had in my head, a prelapsarian construct, uncorrupted by the facts.” FactsWould BeRecordsCreationIgnoranceModelsVolumeConstructs Author:Peter Blegvad
“I think that mathematics can benefit by acknowledging that the creation of good models is just as important as proving deep theorems.” ThinkingImportantCreationProveBenefitsModelsMathematicsTheorems Author:David Mumford