Quotes from Dan Brown

Originally, Tarot had been devised as a secret means to pass along ideologies banned by the Church. Now, Tarot's mystical qualities were passed on by modern fortune-tellers.

And maybe that's why the only thing that keeps me going is my belief that we are capable of being better than we are Ã¢â'¬Â¦ capable of taking action to avoid a catastrophic future.

I have witnessed people transform cancer cells into healthy cells simply by thinking about them. I have witnessed human minds affecting the physical world in myriad ways. And once you see that happen..once this becomes a part of your reality, then some of the miracles you read about become simply a matter of degree.

Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn

Leonardo believed his research had the potential to convert millions to a more spiritual life. Last year he categorically proved the existence of an energy force that unites us all. He actually demonstrated that we are all physically connected… that the molecules in your body are intertwined with the molecules in mine… that there is a single force moving within all of us.

Such are the laws of nature and balance. An if we look at the darkness growing in the world today, we have to realize that this means there is equal light growing.

hoped to prove that science and religion are two totally compatible fields—two different approaches to finding the same truth.

Fear, Katherine had once heard, acted as a stimulant sharpening the mind's ability to think.

The mathematics of Malthus? A quick Internet search led him to information about a prominent nineteenth-century English mathematician and demographist named Thomas Robert Malthus, who had famously predicted an eventual global collapse due to overpopulation.

Science tells me that God must exist. My mind tells me I will never undertand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to

Believe me, I know what it's like to feel all alone … the worst kind of loneliness in the world is the isolation that comes from being misunderstood. It can make people lose their grasp on reality.

The Holy Grail 'neath ancient Roslin waits. The blade and chalice guarding o'er Her gates. Adorned in masters' loving art, She lies. She rests at last beneath the starry skies.

God is not some omnipotent authority looking down from above, threatening to throw us into a pit of fire if we disobey. God is the energy that flows through the synapses of our nervous system and the chambers of our hearts! God is in all things!

Science makes an error," he said, the gentle laughter fading from his voice, "in cutting itself off from nature. In thinking of itself as separate. I feel a chill inside my heart when I imagine where such an error might lead.

Who better than a bunch of celibate male octogenarians to tell the world how to have sex? - Robert Langdon

I want to believe, he heard himself say. Victoria's reply carried no judgement or challenge. So why don't you? He chuckled. Well, it's not that easy. Having faith requires leaps of faith, cerebral acceptance of miracles, immaculate conceptions an divine interventions

Sometimes you need to go up...to go down.

You can't jump for the stars if your feet hurt. And when you get where you're going, you darn well better look great!

maybe the questions are more powerful than the answers.

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.

Perceptions of the modern masons ranged from their being a group of harmless old men who liked to play dress-up... all the way to an underground cabal of power brokers who ran the world. the truth, no doubt, was somewhere in the middle.

the NSA lived by its motto: Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

Technology is linking us in ways we never imagined possible: Twitter, Google, Wikipedia, and others—all blend to create a web of interconnected minds.

As we mathematicians like to say: PHI is one H of a lot cooler than PI!