Quotes from Dan Brown

From out of the brain flowed a stream of religious images—God reaching out to infuse Adam with life, Prometheus crafting a primordial human out of mud, Brahma creating humans from different parts of his own body, an African god parting the clouds and lowering two humans to earth, a Norse god fashioning a man and a woman out of driftwood.

As the old adage goes: 'Men plan, and God laughs.'

Si pudiéramos echar un vistazo al cerebro humano y examinar su sistema operativo, encontraríamos algo así. Cuatro enormes palabras aparecieron sobre las cabezas de los invitados: RECHAZAR CAOS. CREAR ORDEN.

Geneva, Switzerland..i thought it was only two hours

I estimate that some two hundred million people are following this story through online news reports, social media, television, and radio.

De dónde venimos? ¿Adónde vamos? —En otras palabras —dijo Edmond—, le preguntarían sobre nuestro origen y nuestro destino. Y cuando le hicieran esas preguntas, esta sería la respuesta del ordenador: DATOS INSUFICIENTES PARA PROPORCIONAR UNA RESPUESTA PRECISA.

Halos, like much of Christian symbology, were borrowed from the ancient Egyptian religion of sun worship. Christianity is filled with examples of sun worship.

permit ignorance is to empower

Dan Brown is the author of The Da Vinci Code, one of the most widely read books of all time, as well as three other bestsellers featuring Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon: Inferno, The Lost Symbol and Angels & Demons. He has also written two internationally acclaimed stand-alone thrillers, Deception Point and Digital Fortress.

La religión es como un idioma o un vestido. Gravitamos alrededor de las prácticas en las que hemos sido educados. Al final, sin embargo, todos proclamamos lo mismo; que la vida tiene sentido, que nos sentimos agradecidos por el poder que nos ha creado.

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson—appearing in an old clip from the Cosmos television show—declared good-naturedly, "If a Creator designed our universe to support life, he did a terrible job. In the vast, vast majority of the cosmos, life would die instantly from lack of atmosphere, gamma-ray bursts, deadly pulsars, and crushing gravitational fields. Believe me, the universe is no Garden of Eden.

Ma, signore, è una donna

From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to American politics—the name Jesus had been hijacked as an ally in all kinds of power struggles. Since the beginning of time, the ignorant had always screamed the loudest, herding the unsuspecting masses and forcing them to do their bidding.

As we move into an undefined tomorrow," Edmond said, "we will transform ourselves into something greater than we can yet imagine, with powers beyond our wildest dreams. And as we do, may we never forget the wisdom of Churchill, who warned us: 'The price of greatness…is responsibility.'

the minister would say something like: "We come from God and we're going to God," and the biologist would respond, "We evolved from apes and we're going extinct." They will prove nothing except that we viewers will watch anything if it's sufficiently hyped.

Sciences tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.

simpleminded, unhappy souls, who had never stood for anything, men who blindly abused the liberties and freedoms that others had fought to give them.

El miedo incapacita con mayor rapidez que ningún instrumento de guerra.

Michelangelo

La fe es universal. Son nuestros métodos específicos para comprenderla los que son arbitrarios. Hay personas que rezan a Jesús, otras que van a La Meca, y las hay que estudian partículas subatómicas. Sin embargo, al final lo que hacemos todos es buscar la verdad, aquello que es más grande que todos nosotros.

The day science substantiates God in a lab is the day people stop needing faith!

This morning, as Langdon raised his eyes skyward to the famed red-tiled dome that had been an architectural feat of its era, he recalled the time he had foolishly decided to ascend the dome only to discover that its narrow, tourist-crammed staircases were as distressing as any of the claustrophobic spaces he'd ever encountered.

The cross," Langdon said, "was not a Christian symbol until the fourth century. Long before that, it was used by the Egyptians to represent the intersection of two dimensions—the human and the celestial. As above, so below. It was a visual representation of the juncture where man and God become one.

Grace Cathedral in San Francisco and discovered that replicas of Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise