Plato Quotes

Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason.

Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time, comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his disciples no ultimate truth of more pervading significance. Order is the law of all intelligible existence.

The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.

God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.

For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.

What a glorious title, Nature, a veritable stroke of genius to have hit upon. It is more than a cosmos, more than a universe. It includes the seen as well as the unseen, the possible as well as the actual, Nature and Nature's God, mind and matter. I am lost in admiration of the effulgent blaze of ideas it calls forth.

Nature is the system of laws established by the Creator for the existence of things and for the succession of creatures. Nature is not a thing, because this thing would be everything. Nature is not a creature, because this creature would be God. But one can consider it as an immense vital power, which encompasses all, which animates all, and which, subordinated to the power of the first Being, has begun to act only by his order, and still acts only by his concourse or consent ... Time, space and matter are its means, the universe its object, motion and life its goal.

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

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.

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.

By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.

For myself, faith begins with a realization that a supreme intelligence brought the universe into being and created man. It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence--an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered--'In the beginning God.'

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all; everything beyond this follows from the development of appropriate mathematical methods by means of deduction.

God created everything by number, weight and measure.

Time was invented by the Almighty God in order to give ideas a chance.

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

[God] is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing.

I know this world is ruled by Infinite Intelligence. It required Infinite Intelligence to create it and it requires Infinite Intelligence to keep it on its course ... It is mathematical in its precision.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

The Universe, wrought for us by a supremely good and orderly Creator.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.