Playing God Quotes

“It's just my humble opinion
But it's one that I believe in
You don't deserve a point of view
If the only thing you see is you”
― Paramore

“There's no such thing as a small god. Once somebody starts playing God, sooner or later, things will get out of hand.”
― Elif Shafak

“The big question of the hour is prett obvious: it's the question we've been asking every scientist from Galileo to Oppenheimer, from Frankenstein to Moreau. Do I feel like we at SymboGen are trying to play God?
Well, there's a reason that two of the scientists I just named don't really exist. I think that mankind is constantly trying to play God: I would argue that playing God is exactly what God, if He exists, would want us to do. He didn't create thinking creatures with the intent that we would never think. That would be silly. He didn't create creatures that were capable of manipulating and remaking our environment with the intent that we would sit idle and never create anything. That would be a waste.
If God exists― and I am reserving my final opinion on the matter until I die and meet Him― then He is a scientist, an by creating man, he was playing at being me for a little while. So I can't imagine that He would mind if I wanted to try putting the shoe on the other foot, can you?”
― Mira Grant, Symbiont

“Here is the problem, they said to themselves, and there is the solution. That it was drowned in innocent blood was as trivial as the font the reports were printed in. They had disconnected themselves from humanity. Shut off the cell clusters in their brains that made life besides their own sacred. Or valuable. Or worth saving. All it had cost them was every human connection.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“Man rushed in to embrace technology. Unfortunately for him, he didn't think about the consequences of playing god.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“The chief objection to playing God is that someone else is God already.”
― J. Budziszewski, What We Can't Not Know: A Guide

“The Icarian Impulse by Stewart Stafford

With fruit of the knowledge tree,
We took a bite from our world,
Gaining serpent's destructive kiss,
Malicious shortcuts paved "good."

The shock setting of a precedent,
Akin to committing bloody murder,
Shedding the skin of equilibrium,
As a lethal new dawn descends.

Promethean self-replicating beings;
Sacrilegious idols mirror our image,
Synthetic, unsympathetic sentience,
Masochistic puzzles of self-immolation.

© Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford