Dan Brown Quotes

I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.

I am not questioning God's power! It is God who gave us reason and circumspection! It is God we serve by exercising prudence!

When his brain died, all of the memoriesheld in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporatein a flood of chemical reactions.

The man now retrieved a linen cloth and stuffed it deep into Katherine’s mouth. “Death, ” hewhispered to her, “should be a quiet thing.

Faith ― acceptance of which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

Science tells me God must exist.My mind tells me I'll never understand God.My heart tells me I'm not meant to. [Vittoria Vetra]

Buddha had said:"Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.

The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece

…Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed.

The key to our scientific future, ....is hidden in our past

The most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears.

When you're a black woman, her mother said, ain't no hiding what you are. Day you try, is the day you die. Stand tall, smile bright, and let 'em wonder what secret's making you laugh.

Langdon turned to Sophie. "Who is that? What... happened?"Teabing hobbled over. "You were rescued by a knight brandishing an Excalibur made by Acme Orthopedic.

If we don't embrace them, then we are as undeserving of life as the caveman who freezes to death because he's afraid to start a fire.

History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our celebrated truths.

The measure of your faith is the measure of the pain you can endure.

Forgive them, you might say, for they know not what they do. But there comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense, a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve.

Isn’t antimatter what fuels the U.S.S.Enterprise?

Symbols, ” Langdon said, “in no way confirm the presence of their original creators.

As a scientist I have come to learn that information isonly as valuable as its source.

God created… light anddark, heaven and hell—science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang createdeverything in the universe with an opposite.“Including matter itself, antimatter

I am the shade. Through the dolent city, i flee. Through the eternal woe, i take flight..

The carved stone sign in front read Building C.Imaginative title, Langdon thought

You can't jump for the stars if your feet hurt. And when you get where you're going, you darn well better look great!

Good science fiction has its roots in good science.

The mind of had the ability to alter the state of matter itself, and, more important, the mind had the power to encourage the physical world to move in a specific direction

When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response.The gray area between yes and no.Silence.

emotionless tone hurting as much as the news

You’re telling me that CERN dugout millions of tons of earth just to smash tiny particles?”Kohler shrugged. “Sometimes to find truth, one must move mountains.

He warned that any church that ignored reality would not survive to enjoy the divine.

Even the technology that promises to unite us, divides us. Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.

Where we come from... is not nearly as startling as where we are going.

Secrets, ” Kohler finally said, “are a luxury we can no longer afford.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will guard the guards?

the Z-particle Pure energy—no mass at all. It may well be thesmallest building block in nature. Matter is nothing but trapped energy.

One square yard of drag will slow a falling body almost twenty percent.

We were at sixty thousand feet. You’re thirty percent lighter upthere.

If antimatter and matter make contact, both are destroyedinstantly. Physicists call the process ‘annihilation.

How do you feel?”He rubbed his stomach. “Like I’ve been eating Styrofoam.

hoped to prove that science and religion are two totally compatible fields—two different approaches to finding the same truth.

Everything does fall. It must be gravity.