The Einstein Prophecy Quotes

“Could the genizah fragments have been right about so much, but wrong about this? Or was it possible that the tomb had been discovered, and plundered, a thousand years ago? Simone made”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy

“easy thing to be brave and bellicose about it. But if you had, it was hard not to despair. What men could wantonly do to each other, in the name of nation or faith or ideology, was unthinkable.”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy

“If you had never seen war up close, it was an easy thing to be brave and bellicose about it. But if you had, it was hard not to despair. What men could wantonly do to each other, in the name of nation or faith or ideology, was unthinkable.”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy

“I want you to stay with me.” “So do I.” “Is that what you said in Arabic?” “It was close,” she said. He waited for the rest. “It’s just an old Bedouin saying.” “Give me the rough translation.” “I would not trade you for a thousand goats.” Lucas laughed.”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy

“I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy

“Something was in the air tonight, and whatever it might be, it was keeping sleep at bay.”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy

“If there was no God to hear it, what difference did it make? But if there was . . .”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy

“The soul,” he’d said one night by a campfire in the Valley of the Kings, “is like a falcon. Despite its loyalty to the falconer, it longs to fly free. When my time comes, let my soul soar into the wind and the sky. Wherever its natural home is meant to be, that’s where it will go.”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy

“I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth—rocks.”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy

“The mole is a creature that I admire,” Gödel said, before listing several of its most salient virtues, ranging from industry to persistence. “And it does not call attention to itself or its work. It works in secret. That, too, is to be admired.”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy

“I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth—rocks.”   —Albert Einstein, in an interview with Alfred Werner for Liberal Judaism (1949)”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy

“wonder”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy

“receiving”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy

“boardinghouse”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy

“loaded”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy

“Besides, it was nice to share what happy reminiscences they could of prewar Europe, where it had been possible to bandy about whatever theories you liked, over plates of sausages and glasses of schnapps. Berlin in particular had once been a thinking man’s paradise, though now, to Einstein’s horror—indeed, to the horror of the entire civilized world—all of Germany had become a bastion of willful ignorance and unequalled brutality. The transformation was shocking.”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy

“Victorian”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy

“jackets”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy

“If only he knew, Rashid thought, that his own work spoke directly to many of the same issues. Where Einstein was pushing the boundaries of knowledge forward, in the hope of learning ever more, Rashid was studying the past, in the hope of gleaning from it what man might, to his sorrow, have forgotten. A chill coursed through his old bones. He knew from Simone that the physical examination of the ossuary was progressing. What would happen if, through some rash or hasty action, the secrets that the papyri only hinted at were acted upon? He was desperate to unravel the mysteries before some dreadful menace was unwittingly released.”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy

“were”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy

“Thank you,” she said, snatching the key and then banging on the brass bell herself. A Negro bellhop magically appeared. At least they allowed colored people to work there, though even he looked a bit confused as he picked up their bags. She gently shook her father to wake him, then followed the luggage trolley to the elevator. She was so angry she could barely breathe, but she was not about to let her father know of the shabby treatment they had just received. He had never been to the United States before, and she did not want to have to explain to him that while the world was fighting a so-called “master race” intent on ruthlessly exterminating people that they judged inferior or impure, America itself was still a stronghold of racism and discrimination. She just hadn’t expected to find it here, in a northern university town that was home to some of the leading intellectuals in the world, like Albert Einstein and Kurt Gödel and Thomas Mann.”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy

“disembarked”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy

“His work. For her entire life, Simone had been hearing about her father’s work. It was what he lived for. And it was what had made his reputation. He was not only the chairman of the National Affairs Department at the University of Cairo, but the world’s leading expert on the treasures of Egyptian antiquity. In his time, he had written more books, papers, and monographs on the subject than anyone alive. But unlike most professors, he had never been content to dwell in the library archives or the museum galleries. Dr. Abdul Rashid—like his daughter, an Oxford PhD—had unearthed much of the nation’s patrimony, buried in the sands of the Sahara. The cane with the thick rubber tip resting against the edge of the bunk was a testament to the last expedition he had mounted, the one on which he and Simone had discovered the ossuary they were now secretly tracking to whatever destination its current owners—some branch of the United States Armed Forces—were transporting it.”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy

“unannounced,”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy

“It wasn’t just that the memories were often hard ones—Lucas would never forget the German boy, Hansel, accepting the Hershey’s bar a split second before his foot triggered the land mine. It was also the fact that words did not seem capable of doing justice to horrors like that, and a thousand others he had witnessed. If you had never seen war up close, it was an easy thing to be brave and bellicose about it. But if you had, it was hard not to despair. What men could wantonly do to each other, in the name of nation or faith or ideology, was unthinkable.”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy

“The two men spoke together softly for another minute or two, then clasped hands. The driver opened the back door of the car, and once his passenger had ducked inside, slipped the car into gear and pulled away. Einstein stood, watching it go, before raising his eyes to the night sky. Stars twinkled overhead, and when the professor returned his gaze to earth, he must have noticed the orange glow from the tip of Lucas’s cigarette, and raised a hand, palm up, by way of greeting. Lucas returned the salute with a silent wave of his Camel, and then Einstein shuffled back up his stairs and into the house. The porch light went off, and as it did, the light in Taylor’s room, just overhead, went on.”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy

“The desk was covered with the materials Oppenheimer had brought with him—pages of equations, sketches of prototypes for nuclear reactors, even diagrams of possible bomb designs. What Einstein had, that most other physicists did not, was a dual pedigree—he excelled at the theoretical side, but at the same time, he evinced a penchant for the actual mechanics of a thing. His father had been an electrical engineer. The founder of one failed company after another, a businessman he was not, but he had given his son an appreciation for the practical, real-world manifestation of theoretical breakthroughs, an appreciation that had stood him in good stead in the years that he had worked as a clerk in the Swiss patent office. Even the Nobel Prize that had been awarded to him in 1921 had not been given in recognition of his revolutionary theory of relativity, but for his research into the more prosaic photoelectric effect.”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy

“buses,”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy

“At the faculty lounge in Chancellor Greene, Lucas picked up his mail from the pigeonhole with his name on it in the front foyer—it looked like even more university paperwork to fill out—and then, inside, was greeted with a booming “Hail the conquering hero!” from Patrick Delaney, who bounded up from his leather chair like a man half his considerable size, and wrapped Lucas in a bear hug. Delaney was the one-man Department of Mineralogy and Geophysics, whose research into radio isotopes was about as understandable to a lay audience as Einstein’s work, though his fame extended no farther than the wainscoted walls of the lounge. Lucas had always had the sense that some of Delaney’s research was secretly supported with government funds. Taking in the eye patch, he gave Lucas’s shoulder a consoling squeeze, then said, “You do know, right, that the ladies are going to love that patch? Very dashing.”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy

“mentioned”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy