Dan Brown

I__ relieved to seethat even brilliant physicists make mistakes.__ohler looked over. __hat do you mean?___hoever wrote that note made a mistake. That column isn__ Ionic. Ionic columns are uniform in width. That one__ tapered. It__ Doric__he Greek counterpart. A common mistake.__ohler did not smile. __he author meant it as a joke, Mr. Langdon. Ionic means containing ions__lectrically charged particles. Most objects contain them.

Many hands make light work.

It is said that in death, all things become clear.

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

...Understanding as had the ancients that angels and demons were identical- interchangeable archetypes- all a matter of polarity: the guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer...

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.

You mean the day they stop needing the church," Vittoria challenged, moving toward him. "Doubt is your last shred of control. It is doubt that brings souls to you. Our need to know that life has meaning. Man's insecurity and need for an enlightened soul assuring him everything is part of a master plan. But the church is not the only enlightened soul on the planet! We all seek God in different ways. What are you afraid of? That God will show himself somewhere other than inside these walls? That people will find him in their own lives and leave your antiquated rituals behind? Religions evolve! The mind finds answers, the heart grapples with new truths. My father was on your quest! A parallel path! Why couldn't you see that? God is not some omnipotent authority looking down from above, threatening to throw us into a pit of fire if we disobey. God is the energy that flows through the synapses of our nervous system and the chambers of our hearts! God is in all things!

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

You__e telling me that CERN dugout millions of tons of earth just to smash tiny particles?__ohler shrugged. __ometimes to find truth, one must move mountains.

He had been haunted his whole life by a mildcase of claustrophobia__he vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite overcome.Langdon__ aversion to closed spaces was by no means debilitating, but it had always frustrated him.It manifested itself in subtle ways. He avoided enclosed sports like racquetball or squash, and he hadgladly paid a small fortune for his airy, high-ceilinged Victorian home even though economical facultyhousing was readily available. Langdon had often suspected his attraction to the art world as a youngboy sprang from his love of museums_ wide open spaces.

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Matter,_ Vittoria repeated. __lossoming out of nothing. An incredible display of subatomic fireworks. A miniature universe springing to life. He proved not only that matter can be created from nothing, but that the Big Bang and Genesis can be explained simply by accepting the presence of an enormous source of energy.___ou mean God?_ Kohler demanded.__od, Buddha, The Force, Yahweh, the singularity, the unicity point__all it whatever you like__he result is the same. Science and religion support the same truth__ure energy is the father of creation.

You can point to the alleged miracles of the Bible, or any other religious text, but they are nothing but old stories fabricated by man and then exaggerated over time.

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

Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice.

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

Good science fiction has its roots in good science.