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

Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in a power greater than us, we abandon our sense of accountability. Faiths… all faiths… are...

She lay outside in the courtyard, staring up at the raindrops… feeling them hit her body… trying to guess where one would land next. The nuns called again, threatening that pneumonia might make an insufferably...

Tempus Fugit

We were at sixty thousand feet. You’re thirty percent lighter upthere.

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

Nothing is more creative… nor destructive… than a brilliant mind with a purpose.

hoped to prove that science and religion are two totally compatible fields—two different approaches to finding the same truth.

Forgiveness is God’s greatest gift

Buddha had said:”Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.

Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.

No love is greater than that of a father for His son.

Every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith―acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. Every religion describes God through metaphor, allegory,...

Forgive them, you might say, for they know not what they do. But there comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense, a moment when only wisdom has the power...

Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.

My father would argue two side of a möbius strip.

Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful...

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

Very little in any organized faith is truly original. Religions are not born from scratch. They grow from one another. Modern religion is a collage … an assimilated historical record of man’s quest to understand...

Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas are true…written deep within us. And when we hear the truth, even if we don’t understand it,...

Precision can be suffocating

Misunderstanding a culture’s symbols is a common root of predujice.

Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity

Omnipotent-benevolent simply means that God is all-powerful and well-meaning.”I understand the concept. It’s just . . . there seems to be a contradiction.”Yes. The contradiction is pain. Man’s starvation, war, sickness . . .”Exactly!’ Chartrand...

Isn’t antimatter what fuels the U.S.S.Enterprise?

It is said that in death, all things become clear.

Professor Langdon,’ called a young man with curly hair in the back row, ‘if Masonry is not a secret society, not a corporation, and not a religion, then what is it?”Well, if you were to...

Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past.

The theory of everything.

Learning the truth has become my life’s love.

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

You can point to the alleged miracles of the Bible, or any other religious text, but they are nothing but old stories fabricated by man and then exaggerated over time.

If antimatter and matter make contact, both are destroyedinstantly. Physicists call the process ‘annihilation.

God is found in the collection of Many. . . rather than in the One.

Many hands make light work.

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.