I am the shade. Through the dolent city, i flee. Through the eternal woe, i take flight..

Precision can be suffocating

You think CERN is so critical to the earth’s future that we should be immune from moral responsibility?

Don’t tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh. …And if any...

God’s will is your deepest desires.

Su contacto tenía una fuerza tierna y los dedos de ambos se entrelazaron con tanta naturalidad que tuvo la sensación que llevaban haciéndolo toda la vida

…In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.

He had been haunted his whole life by a mildcase of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite overcome.Langdon’s aversion to closed spaces was by no means debilitating, but it had always...

Act first, explain later.

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

Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.

in no way confirm the presence of their original creators.

The author meant it as a joke, Mr. Langdon. Ionic means containing ions—electrically charged particles. Most objects contain them.

Science tells me God must exist.My mind tells me I’ll never understand God.My heart tells me I’m not meant to. [Vittoria Vetra]

The carved stone sign in front read Building C.Imaginative title, Langdon thought

When it comes to passion, I’m not sure you have any choice but to follow.

We are creators, and yet we naively play the role of “the created.” We see ourselves as helpless sheep buffeted around by the God who made us. We kneel like frightened children, begging for help,...

Conclusive evidence. A recent Scientific American article hailed New Physics as a surer path to Godthan religion itself.

You can’t jump for the stars if your feet hurt.

Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors.

Small minds have always lashed out at what they don’t understand.

As a scientist I have come to learn that information isonly as valuable as its source.

You mean the day they stop needing the church,” Vittoria challenged, moving toward him. “Doubt is your last shred of control. It is doubt that brings souls to you. Our need to know that life...

It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.

Good science fiction has its roots in good science.

Sometimes to find truth, one must move mountains.

There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense… a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. – Bertrand Zobrist

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

And when you get where you’re going, you darn well better look great!

The media is the right arm of anarchy.

The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.

The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.

The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not fall magically from the clouds. Man created it as a...

Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories…legends and history of man’s quest to...

You can’t jump for the stars if your feet hurt. And when you get where you’re going, you darn well better look great!

are a luxury we can no longer afford.

When his brain died, all of the memoriesheld in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporatein a flood of chemical reactions.

History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once...

emotionless tone hurting as much as the news

The Pentacle – The ancients envisioned their world in two halves – masculine and feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep a balance of power. Yin and Yang. When male and female were balanced,...

Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.

Outside the window, a bank of clouds appeared on the horizon, inching slowly across the sky, finally slipping across the Moon and blocking out its radiant light. As he clicked off his overhead light, he...

Energetically speaking, antimatter is the mirror image of matter, so the two instantly cancel each other out if they come in contact.Keeping antimatter isolated from matter is a challenge, of course, because everything on earth...

For centuries the church has stood by while science picked away at religion bit by bit. Debunking miracles. Training the mind to overcome the heart. Condemning religion as the opiate of the masses. They denounce...

Including matter itself, antimatter

The act of tattooing one’s skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh.

should be a quiet thing.

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

…Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed.

So long as they speak your name, you shall never die.