Dark Matter Quotes

“Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.”
― Greg Iles, The Footprints of God

“He always reminded us that every atom in our bodies was once part of a distant star that had exploded. He talked about how evolution moves from simplicity toward complexity, and how human intelligence is the highest known expression of evolution. I remember him telling me that a frog's brain is much more complex than a star. He saw human consciousness as the first neuron of the universe coming to life and awareness. A spark in the darkness, waiting to spread to fire.”
― Greg Iles, The Footprints of God

“Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.”
― Greg Iles, The Footprints of God

“Her touch was as knowing and confident as her eyes, and as she focused all her attention upon me, I remembered that there is nothing so thrilling as a woman of words when she decides that the time for words is past.”
― Greg Iles, The Footprints of God

“We do not just belong to this universe, we are it.”
― Greg Iles, The Footprints of God

“I listened in amazement. You saw a face on an American street, or in an office, and you had no idea that a tragic epic lay behind it.”
― Greg Iles, The Footprints of God

“Thought like that showed me the needless ambiguity of words like space-time. The average person heard a word like that and figured he'd never understand it. But it was so simple. Every place you ever saw was linked to a specific time ... the school you visited twenty years after you graduated, the football field you played on, the track you ran -- none of them was the same. If they were, you would collide with the generations that had run on them before and after you. The lover you kissed was not the same person he or she was sixty seconds before. In that minute, a million skin cells had died and been replaced by new ones. The smallest slices of space-time separated thought from action Life from death.”
― Greg Iles, The Footprints of God

“God is merely a part of the human brain, an evolutionary coping mechanism that developed to make bearable our awareness of our own deaths. When”
― Greg Iles, The Footprints of God

“carefully negotiated his way”
― Greg Iles, The Footprints of God