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"Well, the questions would have to be: 'How did it all begin? Where do we come from?'" (p. 52)
Extensive quotes in goodreads. These were collected independently: Historically, the most dangerous men on earth were men of God … especially when their gods became threatened. === What was your famous quote? ‘At thirty-three years old, I…
…if there is one thing I have learned in my long life, it is that faith always survives, even in the face of great hardship. === “By the end of the eleventh century,” Edmond said, “the greatest intellectual exploration and discovery on…
THE SZÉCHENYI CHAIN Bridge—one of eight bridges in Budapest—spans more than a thousand feet across the Danube. An emblem of the link between East and West, the bridge is considered one of the most beautiful in the world. === “I’ve been…
Nietzsche: “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.” === “As the old adage goes: ‘Men plan, and God laughs.’” === You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something! === God…
For more than a century, Gaudí’s controversial Basílica de la Sagrada Família had been under construction, relying solely on private donations from the faithful. Criticized by traditionalists for its eerie organic shape and use of…
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs. === U.S. congressman Paul Broun say, ‘Evolution and the Big Bang are lies straight from the pit of hell.’ === To permit…
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. —WINSTON CHURCHILL === THE TALLEST CROSS in the world is in Spain. Erected on a mountaintop eight miles north of the monastery of El Escorial, the massive…
Darwin’s theory described the survival of the fittest, but not the arrival of the fittest.” === Computer simulations are really just virtual time machines.” === Waves never crash onto beaches and deposit sand in the shape of a sand…
“The truth is—we come from nowhere … and from everywhere. We come from the same laws of physics that create life across the cosmos. We are not special. We exist with or without God. We are the inevitable result of entropy. Life is not the…
Stephen Hawking materialized on the wall, his unmistakable computerized voice proclaiming, “It is not necessary to invoke God to set the universe going. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than…
A road sign in Maine: SKIP CHURCH. YOU’RE TOO OLD FOR FAIRY TALES. And another: RELIGION: BECAUSE THINKING IS HARD. An advertisement in a magazine: TO ALL OF OUR ATHEIST FRIENDS: THANK GOD YOU’RE WRONG! And finally, a scientist in a lab…
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it. === Love is from another realm. We cannot manufacture it on demand. Nor can we subdue it when it appears. Love is not our choice to make. === Jorge Santayana—” “‘Those who cannot…
“A pattern is any distinctly organized sequence. Patterns occur everywhere in nature—the spiraling seeds of a sunflower, the hexagonal cells of a honeycomb, the circular ripples on a pond when a fish jumps, et cetera.” “Okay. And codes?”…
THE SIX-HUNDRED-FOOT HILL known as Montjuïc is located in the southwestern corner of Barcelona and is crowned by the Castell de Montjuïc—a sprawling seventeenth-century fortification perched atop a sheer cliff with commanding views of the…
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son. —John 3:16 “Your God brutally sacrificed his son,” Winston said, “abandoning him to suffer on the cross for hours. With Edmond, I painlessly ended a dying man’s suffering in…
perhaps Sagrada Família—like the Pantheon of Rome—might become a flashpoint for transition, a building with one foot in the past and one in the future, a physical bridge between a dying faith and an emerging one. If that were true, Sagrada…
“It is in hearing the voice of the devil that we can better appreciate the voice of God.” - p. 6
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” —WINSTON CHURCHILL - p. 369
“The price of greatness… is responsibility.” —WINSTON CHURCHILL - p. 412