Evolutionary leaps follow the creations of new technologies.
They created me just as they created you. We’re not so different.[to Geralt]
Men are God’s creation. Whatever we achieve is God’s glory.
We have to create a presence so disruptive they’ll want nothing but peace.
The problem, Bernard, is that what you and I do is so complicated. We practice witchcraft. We speak the right words. Then we create life itself… out of chaos.
It’s a lot easier to knock something down than it is to lift it up.
It takes more power to build than to burn.
I don’t think God rested on the seventh day. I think he reveled in his creation, knowing that someday it would all be destroyed.[to Bernard]
There is a cost to all creation. A sacrifice that is always made.[to Yennefer]
The world is built by killers.
The work can move us forward. Creation perhaps cannot stop the bullets, but creation is our way forward. Our survival. Our salvation.
An oracle would merely predict the future. Our work is to create it.