Origin Quotes

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“What had once been life’s quiet moments of solitary reflection—a few minutes alone on a bus, or walking to work, or waiting for an appointment—now felt unbearable, and people impulsively reached for their phones, their earbuds, and their games, unable to fight the addictive pull of technology. The miracles of the past were fading away, whitewashed by a ceaseless hunger for all-that-was-new.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“William Blake himself had written a similarly themed work titled All Religions Are One.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“I believe future generations will ask themselves how a technologically advanced species like ours could possibly believe most of what our modern religions teach us.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“don’t believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect—” “—intended us to forgo their use?”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“How is it that intelligent human beings cannot discuss their origins without invoking the name of God and fucking aliens! - Edmond Kirsch”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“By the end of the eleventh century,” Edmond said, “the greatest intellectual exploration and discovery on earth was taking place in and around Baghdad. Then, almost overnight, that changed. A brilliant scholar named Hamid al-Ghazali—now considered one of the most influential Muslims in history—wrote a series of persuasive texts questioning the logic of Plato and Aristotle and declaring mathematics to be ‘the philosophy of the devil.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“Nicolaus Copernicus was the father of the heliocentric model—the belief that the planets revolve around the sun—which ignited a scientific revolution in the 1500s that entirely obliterated the Church’s long-held teaching that mankind occupied the center of God’s universe. His discovery was condemned by the Church for three centuries, but the damage had been”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“how tragic it was that so many Americans pictured Baghdad simply as one of those many dusty, war-torn Middle Eastern cities in the news, never knowing it was once the very heart of human scientific progress.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“Scientists and spiritualists often use different vocabularies to describe the exact same mysteries of the universe. The conflicts are frequently over semantics, not substance. - Robert Langdon”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“One of Langdon’s Harvard colleagues—a solemn physics professor—had become so fed up with philosophy majors attending his Origins of the Universe seminar that he finally posted a sign on his classroom door. In my classroom, T > 0. For all inquiries where T = 0, please visit the Religion Department. “How about Panspermia?” Winston”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“Kirsch smiled politely. The word “hip” went out of style decades ago.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“It is in hearing the voice of the devil that we can better appreciate the voice of God.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“Matha Alayna ‘an naf’al?” he asked aloud. What should we do?

The boys stood in a circle, staring silently at the corpse. Then they reacted like teenagers around the world. They pulled out their phones and began snapping photos to text to their friends.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“Smrt se dá porazit jediným způsobem, a to tak, že vlastní život proměníme v mistrovské dílo.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“William Blake,” Langdon said. “ ‘The dark religions are departed and sweet science reigns.’ ”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“فأكثر الإرهابيين شرّاً ليسوا الأشخاص الذين صنعوا القنابل، بل الزعماء النافذين الذين يقومون بتغذية الحقد بين الجماهير اليائسة، ويدفعون جنودهم إلى ارتكاب أعمال العنف.”
― دان براون, Origin

“ألديك أعداء؟ هذا جيّد. فهذا يعني أنّك دافعت عن شيء ما في حياتك!”
― دان براون, الأصل

“And as we do, may we never forget the wisdom of Churchill, who warned us: ‘The price of greatness…is responsibility.’ ”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“Where do we come from? Where are we going? These fundamental questions of human existence have always obsessed me, and for years I’ve dreamed of finding the answers.” Edmond paused, his tone turning somber. “Tragically, on account of religious dogma, millions of people believe they already know the answers to these big questions. And because not every religion offers the same answers, entire cultures end up warring over whose answers are correct, and which version of God’s story is the One True Story.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“When a computer creates art, who is the artist—the computer or the programmer?”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“Michelangelo is the gold standard,” Winston said with a chuckle, “brilliantly posing David in an effeminate contrapposto, his limp wrist casually holding a flaccid slingshot, conveying a feminine vulnerability. And yet David’s eyes radiate a lethal determination, his tendons and veins bulging in anticipation of killing Goliath. The work is simultaneously delicate”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“Early humans,” Langdon lectured on-screen, “had a relationship of wonder with their universe, especially with those phenomena they could not rationally understand.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces. We must seize every opportunity to show kindness and to love fully. I see in your eyes that you have your mother’s generous soul. Your conscience will be your guide. When life is dark, let your heart show you the way.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“However, when they try to look back to the instant when the Big Bang occurred—where T equals zero—the mathematics all goes mad, describing what seems to be a mystical speck of infinite heat and infinite density.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“The early Greeks had to look back centuries to study ancient culture, but we need look back only a single generation to find those who lived without the technologies we take for granted today.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“If we all worshipped gravity, there would be no disagreements over which way it pulled.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“science and religion are often attempting to tell the same story in two different languages.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“I believe life not only obeys the laws of physics, but that life began because of those laws.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion…that the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by the unified voices of decency that rise up to meet them. It is these voices—these choirs of empathy, tolerance, and compassion—that I pray one day will sing from this mountaintop.”
― Dan Brown, Origin