The Return of the Gods Quotes

“Mockery ends where understanding begins.”
― Erich von Däniken, The Return of the Gods: Evidence of Extraterrestrial Visitations

“As long as our laws and ethical codes allow it, they will be able to construct human beings with quite specific characteristics---real works of genetic art. People say that this is 'playing at God'; but they forget that the God (or better, the gods) of the Old Testament created man 'in his image'. He programmed him in the way he wished, and clearly also kept tinkering with his descendants.”
― Erich von Däniken, The Return of the Gods

“The first 'model' human was apparently superior in some respects to the angels. It particularly annoyed them to think that the human being would gain power over a whole planet, and might reproduce at will. Angels are, apparently, infertile and unable to reproduce. There was, therefore, jealousy in heaven.”
― Erich von Däniken, The Return of the Gods