"History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our celebrated truths."
- Dan Brown
"The measure of your faith is the measure of the pain you can endure."
"Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic research, medicine—they all make mistakes. Science needs to survive its own blunders, at any cost. For ever..."
"Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas maybe we do so because those ideas are true... written deep within us. And when we hear the truth, even if we don't understand it, we feel..."
"Outside the window, a bank of clouds appeared on the horizon, inching slowly across the sky, finally slipping across the Moon and blocking out its radiant light. As he clicked off his overhead light, ..."
"Forgive them, you might say, for they know not what they do. But there comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense, a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve."
"She lay outside in the courtyard, staring up at the raindrops… feeling them hit her body… trying to guess where one would land next. The nuns called again, threatening that pneumonia might make an ins..."
"Isn’t antimatter what fuels the U.S.S.Enterprise?"
"God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change."
"I love the gray area between right and wrong."