Quotes from Dan Brown

There will come a day when modern science begins in earnest to study the wisdom of the ancients Ã¢â'¬Â¦ that will be the day that mankind begins to find answers to the big questions that still elude him.

El hombre llega mucho más lejos para evitar lo que teme que para alcanzar lo que desea.

I have just removed a dozen of my best men from Vatican City on the eve of conclave. And I have done this to stake out the Pantheon based on the testimony of some American I have never met who has just interpreted a four hundred-year-old poem.

found it deeply disturbing when a recent poll revealed that one half of my countrymen believe quite literally that Adam and Eve existed—that an all-powerful God created two fully formed human beings who single-handedly populated the entire planet, generating all the diverse races, with none of the inherent problems of inbreeding.

You have won, but you haven't won fairly.

Well done. Amon is indeed represented as a man with a ram's head, and his promiscuity and curved horns are related to our modern sexual slang "horny".' 'No shit!' 'No shit,' Langdon said. 'And do you know who Amon's counterpart was? The Egyptian goddess of fertility?

Seeing how prominently Edmond had displayed the masterpiece, Langdon wondered if perhaps the painting itself might hold some clue as to what Edmond had discovered. At first glance, the painting's subject seemed far too primitive to hint at an advanced scientific discovery. Its broad uneven brushstrokes depicted a Tahitian jungle inhabited by an assortment of native Tahitians and animals.

There is a fossil in this meteorite! Not just a speck of bacteria or microbes, but an advanced life-form! Proof of life elsewhere in the universe!

EVEN TENSION! DAMN IT!" a woman's voice screamed nearby, with all the grace of a chain saw. Rachel looked over to see a small woman

Replication. Repeating a symbol is the simplest way to strengthen its meaning. Jacques Saunière positioned himself in the shape of a five-pointed star." If one pentacle is good, two is better.

These books can't possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all time." Faukman's eyes went wide. "Don't tell me Harry Potter is actually about the Holy Grail.

Wealth is commonplace, but wisdom is rare.

Something about lying on our backs staring up at the heavens...opens the mind.

Modern polarity is nothing but the 'dual world' described by Krishna here in the Bhagavad Gita over two thousand years ago.

Hundreds of feet below, the cobblestone piazza beckons like a tranquil oasis. How

When swimming into a dark tunnel, there arrives a point of no return when you no longer have enough breath to double back. Your only choice is to swim forward into the unknown … and pray for an exit.

Along the banks of the river Arno, I scramble, breathless Ã¢â'¬Â¦ turning left onto Via dei Castellani, making my way northward, huddling in the shadows of the Uffizi.

makeup that Langdon could see, her complexion appeared unusually smooth, the only blemish a tiny beauty mark just above her lips. Her eyes, though a gentle brown, seemed unusually penetrating, as if they had witnessed a profundity of experience rarely encountered by a person her age. 'Dr. Marconi doesn't speak much English,' she said, sitting down beside him, 'and he asked me to fill out your admittance form.' She gave

could swing outward to reveal layer upon layer of world maps. This was the place where Roosevelt had charted the course of World War II. Unsettlingly, it was also the room from which Clinton had admitted his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Gabrielle

talking about clear minds writing in clear language—the predictions of Saint Augustine, Sir Francis Bacon, Newton, Einstein, the list goes on and on, all anticipating a transformative moment of enlightenment. Even

Let me out, or she dies!

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

In that instant, Langdon felt the tiniest of tremors in the earth beneath him, as if a tipping point had been reached … as if religious thought had just traversed the farthest reaches of its orbit and was now circling back, wearied from its long journey, and finally coming home.

Silas knew the stakes were incalculable, and yet what the Teacher was now commanding seemed impossible.