Quotes from Dan Brown

Spain's pacto de olvido—a nationwide political agreement to "forget" everything that had happened under Franco's vicious rule—meant that schoolchildren in Spain had been taught very little about the dictator. A poll in Spain had revealed that teenagers were far more likely to recognize the actor James Franco than they were dictator Francisco Franco.

For centuries, most of the devout had looked past vast amounts of scientific data and rational logic in defense of their faith.

Ce soart? va avea condiÈ›ia omeneasc? dac? marile mistere ale vieÈ›ii vor fi în sfârÈ™it elucidate? Ce se va întâmpla când acele convingeri pe care le accept?m exclusiv pe baza credinÈ›ei... vor fi dovedite categoric ca fiind reale? Sau, dimpotriv?, ca fiind doar un mit? Am putea spune c? unele întreb?ri ar fi mai bine s? r?mân? f?r? de r?spuns.

Antimatter is the most powerful energy source known to man. It releases energy with 100 percent efficiency (nuclear fission is 1.5 percent efficient). Antimatter creates no pollution or radiation

As the soul becomes enlightened … it takes the beautiful shape of the dove. Langdon

In reality, Edmond loved attention, and admitted to keeping his plane at Sabadell only to have an excuse to drive the winding roads to his home in his favorite sports car—a Tesla Model X P90D that Elon Musk had allegedly hand-delivered to him as a gift. Supposedly, Edmond had once challenged his jet pilots to a one-mile drag race on the runway—Gulfstream vs. Tesla—but his pilots had done the math and declined.

Langdon wondered if maybe Edmond had discovered that human intellect, after aeons of progress, was now on the decline. There were certainly alarming indicators to suggest this might be true.

Cuando una pregunta carece de respuesta correcta, sólo queda la respuesta sincera.

We're adults, Robert. You can admit it. You feel a longing. I see it in your eyes. A deep, carnal hunger." She smiled. "I feel it too. And that craving is about to be satisfied." "It is?" He felt emboldened and took a step toward her. "Completely." She held up a room-service menu. "I ordered everything they've got.

the Masons transported their secret wisdom from the Old World to the New World—here, to America—a land they hoped would remain free from religious tyranny.

Without warning, she began radiating a white light Ã¢â'¬Â¦ brighter and brighter. Her entire body started vibrating intensely, and then, in a rush of thunder, she exploded into a thousand splintering shards of light.

The most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears.

Bueno, esa es con frecuencia la cuestión, ¿no? En el mundo del arte clásico, las obras se aprecian en base a la ejecución del artista; es decir, la destreza con la que pinta el lienzo o cincela la piedra. En el arte moderno, sin embargo, la valoración se basa más en la idea que en su ejecución. Por ejemplo, cualquiera puede componer una sinfonía de cuarenta minutos que consista únicamente en un acorde y silencio, pero fue Klein quien tuvo la idea.

As he flushed, an unexpected realization hit him. This is the Pope's toilet, he thought. I just took a leak in the Pope's toilet. He had to chuckle. The Holy Throne.

But uncertainty is always a precursor to sweeping change; transformation is always preceded by upheaval and fear.

making. Langdon suspected, however, that the actual reason

A onipresença do PHI na Natureza – disse Langdon, apagando as luzes – claramente está além da coincidência, e assim os antigos presumiram que o número PHI deve ter sido predeterminado pelo Criador do universo.

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.

The goal of tattooing was never beauty. The goal was change. From the scarified Nubian priests of 2000 B.C., to the tattooed acolytes of the Cybele cult of ancient Rome, to the moko scars of the modern Maori, humans have tattooed themselves as a way of offering up their bodies in partial sacrifice, enduring the physical pain of embellishment and emerging changed beings. Despite

Churchill, who warned us: 'The price of greatness…is responsibility.

Haosul care ne inconjoara este cladit pe o ordine bine definita.

Love truly is not a finite emotion, she realized. It can be generated spontaneously out of nothing at all.

I can't wait for this to come out in the movies in October!

It is quite common for humans to sentimentalize their relationships with synthetic intelligences