Quotes from James Rollins

Few people know that, by canon law, each and every Catholic altar must contain a holy relic.

Seventy-five percent of all emerging diseases in the past century—Ebola, HIV, COVID-19—were passed to the human population from animals, known as zoonotic transmission.

Een vrouw in Vikingkleren zwaaide naar hem, gebaarde dat hij naar de opening in de piramide moest rennen. 'Rennen, Jake!' Het was Kady! Hij herkende haar bijna niet. Haar kleren waren gescheurd en ze had bloed op haar gezicht, maar ze stond fier overeind. Ze hief het zwaard in haar hand op en weest naar de top van de piramide.

As his grandfather said in that sage Pequot Indian manner of his, Wringin' your hands only stops you from rollin' up your sleeves.

you say carjacking, i say borrowing.

This process—called "machine learning"—was the core method by which AIs taught themselves.

Dit is Pangaea. - Jake

The Great Stagnation

Sigma was started to protect and maintain the technological superiority of the United States.

from any anatomical disgust

Linda tousled his hair. "What about us girls?" Jason blushed. "You know what I meant." "I know." Linda leaned over and kissed him on the cheek. "Thanks." Jason turned an uncomfortable shade of purple.

My colleague deciphered some bits of the writing on the wolf-totem jar. He found a smattering of words and phrases that spoke of death and destruction. Nothing more." "So basically a waning label," Painter said. Kowalski frowned, "Why didn't they just slap it with a skull and crossbones to begin with? It would've saved everyone a bunch of trouble.

One must be humble enough to recognize one's limitations, to know when further knowledge is needed.

seventeenth century, Pope Leo XIII

Down," she ordered. "Shoot anybody that comes into view." "What about you?" "No, don't shoot me." "I mean where are you going?

Even the word salary came from the Latin salarium, which meant the amount a soldier was paid to buy salt.

Underland: A Deep Time Journey

Man, know thyself, and thou wilt know the universe and the gods. —INSCRIPTION AT THE TEMPLE OF DELPHI

His friend slammed his shoulder into the door and burst out into the open.

She would not fail this night. Nothing would stop her. Cassandra worked around to the far

Bitter thoughts swept through him. That face had been called many names over the centuries, worn many identities. But after two millennia he had returned to the one his mother had given him. Judas Iscariot.

Judas paused at the edge of the Venetian ballroom, letting the colors swirl in front of him. Crimson reds, deepest golds, indigos that matched the evening sea, blacks that ate the light, and the pearly radiance of bare shoulders. Nowhere did the women dress as brightly, and display

when it was your people being persecuted, it opened your eyes to the inhumanity of your actions.

First of all, the book's true name wasn't Doomsday, but rather Domesday. After the old English root dom, which meant 'reckoning' or 'accounting.' The book was commissioned by King William as a means to assess the value of his newly conquered lands, a way to assign tax and tithing.