Quotes from Dan Brown

Langdon] thought about all the religions of the world, about their shared origins, about the earliest gods of the sun, moon, sea and wind. Nature was once the core. For all of us.' - p. 456

The early Christians built a small shrine over his tomb. As Christianity spread, the shrine got bigger, layer upon layer, culminating in this collosal basilica. The entire Catholic faith had been built, quite literally, upon St Peter. The rock.

Breathe through your eyes," she said. "I'm sorry?" "It relaxes the muscles. It's called pranayama.

How about Panspermia?" Winston asked. "The notion that life on earth was seeded from another planet by a meteor or cosmic dust? Panspermia is considered a scientifically valid possibility to explain the existence of life on earth.

Their minds were too filled with chaos to see God.

Snooping data was a lot like having indiscriminate sex—protection or no protection, sooner or later you caught something.

I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments.

all questions were once spiritual. Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called on to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

After listing the vast array of famous composers, artists, and authors who had created works based on Dante's epic poem, Langdon scanned the crowd. "So tell me, do we have any authors here tonight?" Nearly one-third of the hands went up. Langdon stared out in shock. Wow, either this is the most accomplished audience on earth, or this e-publishing thing is really taking off.

have you ever seen an actual human brain? It's built in two parts—an outer part called the dura mater and an inner part called the pia mater. These two parts are separated by the arachnoid—a veil of weblike tissue." Langdon cocked his head in surprise. Gently, she reached up and touched Langdon's temple. "There's a reason they call this your temple, Robert.

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

science and religion are often attempting to tell the same story in two different languages.

I hope Ludwig van Beethoven gets his cut, Langdon thought, fairly certain that the original inventor of bone conduction technology was the eighteenth-century composer who, upon going deaf, discovered he could affix a metal rod to his piano and bite down on it while he played, enabling him to hear perfectly through vibrations in his jawbone.

You just crossed six time zones," the pilot offered.

Zijn grote gouden speer...gevuld met vuur... Werd verscheidene malen in me gestoken... Tot diep in mijn binnenste... Een zo overweldigende heerlijkheid dat je onmogelijk kon wensen dat het ophield.

How do you feel?" He rubbed his stomach. "Like I've been eating Styrofoam.

We were at sixty thousand feet. You're thirty percent lighter up there.

Newton's Third Law of Child Rearing: For every lunacy, there is an equal and opposite lunacy.'

What had once been life's quiet moments of solitary reflection—a few minutes alone on a bus, or walking to work, or waiting for an appointment—now felt unbearable, and people impulsively reached for their phones, their earbuds, and their games, unable to fight the addictive pull of technology. The miracles of the past were fading away, whitewashed by a ceaseless hunger for all-that-was-new.

Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of an justified religious beliefs. – Sam Harris

Scientific advancement carries risk. It always has. Space programs, genetic research, medicine—they all make mistakes. Science needs to survive its own blunders, at any cost. For everyone's sake.

Well, 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." After that meeting, Edmond had

The coo of a single dove had changed everything.

Fossils were placed there by God to test our faith. - U.S. congressman Paul Broun