Angels & Demons (post 1)

“’Leonardo was a Catholic priest,’ Kohler said.
Langdon turned. ‘A priest? I thought you said he was a physicist.’
‘He was both. Men of science and religion are not unprecedented in history. Leonardo was one of them. He considered physics ‘God’s natural law.’ He claimed God’s handwriting was visible in the natural order all around us. Through science he hoped to prove God’s existence to the doubting masses. He considered himself a theo-physicist.’
Theo-Physicist? Langdon thought is sounded impossibly oxymoronic.
‘The field of particle physics,’ Kohler said, ‘had made some shocking discoveries lately---discoveries quite spiritual in implication. Leonardo was responsible for many of them.’
Langdon studied CERN’s director, still trying to process the bizarre surroundings. ‘spirituality and physics?’ Langdon had spent his career studying religious history, and if there was one recurring theme, it was that science and religion had been oil and water since day one… archenemies… unmixable” (44).




This book is a great example of how you mix science fiction and religious study into an adventure. The thought that a priest could also be a great scientist seems almost comical. Brown really does his research into what he’s writing about the information he puts into the story about the history, cults, and even the places and objects he’s talking about. The quote portrays what many think that scientists have to not believe to be able to work and make the discoveries.

It was sad that a man with so much potential as Leonardo was branded and had his eye cut out while he was still alive before being murdered. CERN is a massive research compound in Switzerland that actually exists to see the advancement of the sciences. The book grabs you by the throat with the murder and locks you in your seat by telling you both sides of the story. I can't wait to see what comes next in this book.