Shaikha

“Consider this!” Edmond declared. “It took early humans over a million years to progress from discovering fire to inventing the wheel. Then it took only a few thousand years to invent the printing press. Then it took only a couple hundred years to build a telescope. In the centuries that followed, in ever-shortening spans, we bounded from the steam engine, to gas-powered automobiles, to the Space Shuttle! And then, it took only two decades for us to start modifying our own DNA!”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“These two mysteries lie at the heart of the human experience. Where do we come from? Where are we going?”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“Ever since I was a child, I’ve had the gut sense that there’s a consciousness behind the universe. When I witness the precision of mathematics, the reliability of physics, and the symmetries of the cosmos, I don’t feel like I’m observing cold science; I feel as if I’m seeing a living footprint…the shadow of some greater force that is just beyond our grasp.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“The age of religion is drawing to a close, and the age of science is dawning.”
― Dan Brown, Origin