The Infinite Library

“To efficiently create chaos, Langdon realized, requires some order.”

“Me and Katy look adorkable in extraterrestrial highway shirts. You would just look stupid. You can thank me later.”

“We were too greedy, grasping for immortality too soon. Perhaps if we had only been patient, content to wait, we would all have forever in the end.”

“Human intellect has always evolved by rejecting outdated information in favor of new truths. This is how the species has evolved. In Darwinian terms, a religion that ignores scientific facts and refuses to change its beliefs is like a fish stranded in a slowly drying pond and refusing to flip to deeper water because it doesn't want to believe its world has changed.”

“And we remember that there must be a balance. No birth without death. No life without tears. What is taken from the world must be given back, and from him who takes and does not give back, who would tip the balance of the river, from him all will be taken. No one should live forever, but should give his blood to the river when the time comes so that tomorrow another may live. And so it goes.”

“We don't know the Devil's side of the story, because God wrote all the books.”

“Did you think you could stop me? I'll burn the world down to save her.”

“Наука і релігія - не конкуренти, це дві різні мови, які говорять про те саме. У світі є місце для них обох.”

“Știința este încercarea de a găsi dovezi fizice pentru ceea ce este necunoscut sau încă nedefinit, de a respinge superstitițiile și percepțiile greșite în favoarea adevărurilor observabile. Când știința oferă un răspuns, acesta este universal. Iar omenirea nu se războiește din cauza lui, ci face front comun în jurul lui.”

“Countless gods filled countless gaps,” Langdon said. “And yet, over the centuries, scientific knowledge increased.” A collage of mathematical and technical symbols flooded the sky overhead. “As the gaps in our understanding of the natural world gradually disappeared, our pantheon of gods began to shrink.”