Quotes from Dan Brown

As he flushed, an unexpected realization hit him. This is the Pope's toilet, he thought. I just took a leak in the Pope's toilet. He had to chuckle. The Holy Throne.

Relax, Langdon whispered. Do your piranha thing.

Napoleon once said, What is history, but a fable agreed upon? He smiled. By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which the dark spirits tended their seeds.

God is found in the collection of Many. . . rather than in the One.

Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh.

Human thought can literally transform the physical world .. we are the masters of our own universe

Cancer is nothing more than a healthy cell that starts replicating out of control.

Neutrinos have mass? I didn't even know they were Catholic! Robert to Vittoria

Time is a river...and books are boats. Many volumes start down that stream, only to be wrecked and lost beyond recall in its sands. Only a few, a very few, endure the testings of time and live to bless the ages following.

Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice.

Religion has always persecuted science.

The greatest story ever told is, in fact, the greatest story ever sold

You can't save the world, so don't sacrifice your happiness trying.' 

I've learned to expect the worst from people who hold power.

Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle—like getting to work on time or paying our taxes. If we have wider, existential fears, we jettison them very quickly, refocusing on simple tasks and daily trivialities.

And when you get where you're going, you darn well better look great!

Every generation's breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation's Technology

The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer

Medicine, electronic communications, space travel, genetic manipulation . . . these are the miracles about which we now tell our children. These are the miracles we herald as proof that science will bring us the answers. The ancient stories of immaculate conceptions, burning bushes, and parting seas are no longer relevant. God has become obsolete. Science has won the battle.

If our ancestors could see us today, surely they would think us gods.

The information was kept hidden for the same reason we keep matches from children. In the correct hands, fire can provide illumination... but in the wrong hands, fire can be highly destructive.

Sometimes, circumstances raise impossible decisions. -William Pickering

Don't spend...but mend yourself...