Your disciples will expect something even grander from you. They'll want you to become a deity.
She snickered and said, I'm not ruling out that possibility.
What sort of deity? A hamadryad? Plato's demiurge? The Creator God of Judeo-Christian revelation?
That job's already taken, she said.
But you could do it better, I said.
When it comes to the physics, no, but in other areas—you're right.

Chapter 13 (pp. 304-305) - The Philosopher's Apprentice (2008)