Quotes from Dan Brown

But there comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a

science and religion are not competitors, they're two different languages trying to tell the same story. There's room in this world for both.

And we're locked in. I am actually aware of that. I mean the guard is locked out

Historically, the most dangerous men on earth were men of God … especially when their gods became threatened.

The symbol "&" was a logogram—literally a picture representing a word. While many people assumed the symbol derived from the English word "and," it actually derived from the Latin word et. The ampersand's unusual design "&" was a typographical fusion of the letters E and T—the ligature still visible today in computer fonts like Trebuchet, whose ampersand "" clearly echoed its Latin origin.

Life is not the point of the universe. Life is simply what the universe creates and reproduces in order to dissipate energy.

Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?

Remember tonight Ã¢â'¬Â¦ for it's the beginning of forever.' 

As their notoriety spread, these lethal men became known by a single word—Hassassin—literally "the followers of hashish." The name Hassassin became synonymous with death in almost every language on earth. The word was still used today, even in modern English . . . but like the craft of killing, the word had evolved. It was now pronounced assassin.

The truth only be glimpsed through the eye of the death.

Widespread acceptance of a fact is not a proof of its validity.

The most amazing part," Katherine said, "is that as soon as we humans begin to harness our true power, we will have enormous control over our world. We will be able to design reality rather than merely react to it.

Nothing is more creative … nor destructive … than a brilliant mind with a purpose.

These two mysteries lie at the heart of the human experience. Where do we come from? Where are we going?

That is to say, when the ancients experienced gaps in their understanding of the world around them, they filled those gaps with God.

To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books

A veces, nuestras mentes ven cosas que nuestros corazones desean. (Cardenal Mortati)

I believe future generations will ask themselves how a technologically advanced species like ours could possibly believe most of what our modern religions teach us.

Matha Alayna 'an naf'al?" he asked aloud. What should we do? The boys stood in a circle, staring silently at the corpse. Then they reacted like teenagers around the world. They pulled out their phones and began snapping photos to text to their friends.

In the fourteenth century, Italian literature was, by requirement, divided into two categories: tragedy, representing high literature, was written in formal Italian; comedy, representing low literature, was written in the vernacular and geared toward the general population.

How is it that intelligent human beings cannot discuss their origins without invoking the name of God and fucking aliens! - Edmond Kirsch

Nothing is more creative Ã¢â'¬Â¦ nor destructive Ã¢â'¬Â¦ than a brilliant mind with a purpose.

Your world moves so fast that if you stop even for an instant to consider the implications of your actions, someone more efficient will whip past you in a blur.

Most importantly," he said, "this museum must celebrate the other lesson history has taught us—that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion…that the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by the unified voices of decency that rise up to meet them. It is these voices—these choirs of empathy, tolerance, and compassion—that I pray one day will sing from this mountaintop.