Book

Origin

: A Novel

The #1 New York Times Bestseller (October 2017) from the author of The Da Vinci Code. Bilbao, Spain Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Gu

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Characters

Dan Brown (14)Antoni Gaudí (1)

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

— Dan Brown, amazon.com

Tagged: Religion, Orthodoxy, Why people are such dicks

“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.”

— Dan Brown, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Breaking Up, Why we believe what we believe

“Waves never crash onto beaches and deposit sand in the shape of a sand castle.”

— Dan Brown, amazon.com

Tagged: order, Chaos

“Observing your own brain in a bowl, you would not say, "That object is me." We are the sum of the interactions taking place within the mechanism.”

— Dan Brown, amazon.com

Tagged: Epistemology, Bodies, Brains

“The art is in knowing how to ask.”

— Dan Brown, amazon.com

Tagged: Technology, Questions, Inquiry

“I am not saying I know for a fact there is no God. All I am saying is that if there is a divine force behind the universe, it is laughing hysterically at the religions we've created in an attempt to define it.”

— Dan Brown, amazon.com

Tagged: Religion, atheism, Agnosticism, Pluralism

“Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first. Originality consists of returning to the origin.”

— Antoni Gaudí, amazon.com

Tagged: Nature, Creativity, Design, Technology

“I call it 'Newton's Third Law of Child Rearing: For every lunacy, there is an equal and opposite lunacy.”

— Dan Brown, amazon.com

Tagged: Religion, Parenting, Personality

“"For the human brain," Edmond explained, "any answer is better than no answer. We feel enormous discomfort when faced with 'insufficient data,' and so our brains invent the data-- offering us, at the very least, the illusion of order--creating myriad philosophies, mythologies, and religions to reass…”

— Dan Brown, amazon.com

Tagged: Religion, Orthodoxy, Why we believe what we believe

“We comfort our physical bodies in hopes our souls will follow.”

— Dan Brown, amazon.com

Tagged: Religion, Pain, Sex, Drugs, Alcohol

“Spiritual beliefs are etched deeply on our psyches at a young age by those we love and trust most -- our parents, our teachers, our religious leaders. Therefore, any religious shifts occur over generations, and not without great angst, and often bloodshed.”

— Dan Brown, amazon.com

Tagged: Religion, Orthodoxy, Why we believe what we believe

“Everyone respects those who live by a code.”

— Dan Brown, amazon.com

Tagged: Uniforms, Social contract, Community

“The devout can always benefit from listening to nonbelievers.”

— Dan Brown, amazon.com

Tagged: Religion, Orthodoxy, dialogue

“Historically, the most dangerous men on the earth were men of God...especially when their gods became threatened.”

— Dan Brown, amazon.com

Tagged: Religion, Orthodoxy, Why people are such dicks

“Well, science and religion are not competitors, they're two different languages trying to tell the same story. There's room in this world for both.”

— Dan Brown, amazon.com

Tagged: Religion, Science, Pluralism, John Hick