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1 " That’s the beauty of the universe. There’s always a new mystery. "
― James Rollins , The Eye of God (Sigma Force, #9)
2 " There are a thousand paths into the future, forks after forks in the road ahead. Who knows, if one road closes, maybe another opens in another universe . . . and your soul, your consciousness, leaps over to continue that journey ever forward, always finding the right path. "
3 " The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. "
4 " Despite his image as a bloody tyrant, Genghis was also forward thinking. His empire had the first international postal system, invented the concept of diplomatic immunity, and even allowed women in its councils. But more importantly, the Mongols were also unprecedented in their religious tolerance. "
5 " So we’re damned if we do and damned if we don’t.” She shrugged. “That pretty much sums up quantum physics. "
6 " ...when it came to explosives and radios, bad things sometimes happened to good engineers. "
7 " There are a thousand paths into the future, forks after forks in the road ahead. Who knows, if one road closes, maybe another opens in another universe . . . and your soul, your consciousness, leaps over to continue that journey ever forward, always finding the right path.” Still, "
8 " We are star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. "
9 " Silence fueled anxieties, gave them their true power. Expressing them aloud was a way of releasing that tension, of letting go, if only for a brief time. "
10 " WHAT IS REALITY? It’s both the simplest question to answer—and the hardest. Over the ages, it has baffled both philosophers and physicists. In The Republic, Plato described the true world as nothing more than a flickering shadow on a cave wall. Oddly enough, millennia later, scientists have come full circle to a similar conclusion. "
11 " And what of our own universe? The newest conjecture is that all that we experience—from the tiniest vibrating string of energy to that massive galaxy spinning around a maelstrom of reality-ripping black holes—may be nothing more than a hologram, a three-dimensional illusion that, in fact, we may all be living in a created simulation. Could that be possible? Could Plato have been right all along: that we are blind to the true reality around us, that all we know is nothing more than the flickering shadow on a cave wall? "
12 " It is high time Americans grew accustomed to our traditions. "
13 " stubbornly "
14 " Not just his cross,” Josip intoned. Vigor matched his friend’s tearful gaze and knew the truth. It held his skull, too. Vigor was struck "
15 " superbolide meteors, averaging seventeen to twenty meters across. They each struck with the energy equivalent of eight atomic bombs. "
16 " the Kuiper belt, a region of icy asteroids past the orbit of Neptune, drawing an entourage of rocks in its wake and splashing them across the earth. The Kuiper belt contained over thirty thousand asteroids larger than a hundred kilometers in diameter, along with being the home to many short-period comets like the famous Halley’s comet. "
17 " He pressed his point. “There are a thousand paths into the future, forks after forks in the road ahead. Who knows, if one road closes, maybe another opens in another universe . . . and your soul, your consciousness, leaps over to continue that journey ever forward, always finding the right path. "
18 " Remember, time is just a dimension. It has no inherent flow backward or forward.” “In other words, the distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion? "
19 " For in this world, one life was enough for any man. "
20 " What has been written down only goes back some six thousand years, tracking only the briefest steps of humans on this planet. And even that record is full of gaps turning history into a frayed and moth-eaten tapestry. Most remarkable of all, down those ragged holes many of history’s greatest mysteries have been lost, waiting to be rediscovered—including events that mark pivotal shifts in history, those rare moments that change civilizations. "
