Origin (Robert Langdon, #5)

by Dan Brown

Historically, the most dangerous men on earth were men of God…especially when their gods became threatened.

science and religion are not competitors, they’re two different languages trying to tell the same story. There’s room in this world for both.”

the human brain,” Edmond explained, “any answer is better than no answer. We feel enormous discomfort when faced with ‘insufficient data,’ and so our brains invent the data—offering us, at the very least, the illusion of order—creating myriad philosophies, mythologies, and religions to reassure us that there is indeed an order and structure to the unseen world.”

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

“May our philosophies keep pace with our technologies. May our compassion keep pace with our powers. And may love, not fear, be the engine of change.”