01c. 1964 ADOne square yard of drag will slow a falling body almost twenty percent.Dan Brown / quote ↗
03c. 1964 ADOftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturityDan Brown / quote ↗
07c. 1964 ADThe Pentacle - The ancients envisioned their world in two halves - masculine and feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep a balance of power. Yin and Yang. When male and female were balanced, there was harmony in the world. When they were unbalanced there was chaos.Dan Brown / quote ↗
08c. 1964 ADWe were at sixty thousand feet. You’re thirty percent lighter upthere.Dan Brown / quote ↗
09c. 1964 ADIf antimatter and matter make contact, both are destroyedinstantly. Physicists call the process ‘annihilation.Dan Brown / quote ↗
10c. 1964 ADHow do you feel?”He rubbed his stomach. “Like I’ve been eating Styrofoam.Dan Brown / quote ↗
11c. 1964 ADVery little in any organized faith is truly original. Religions are not born from scratch. They grow from one another. Modern religion is a collage ... an assimilated historical record of man's quest to understand the divine.Dan Brown / quote ↗
15c. 1964 ADhoped to prove that science and religion are two totally compatible fields—two different approaches to finding the same truth.Dan Brown / quote ↗
16c. 1964 AD... [T]he other lesson history has taught us - that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion ... that the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by the unified voices of decency that rise up to meet them.Dan Brown / quote ↗
18c. 1964 ADThe Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not fall magically from the clouds. Man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions. History has never had a definitive version of the book.Dan Brown / quote ↗
19c. 1964 ADWell, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong.Dan Brown / quote ↗
20c. 1964 ADI still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.Dan Brown / quote ↗
21c. 1964 ADI write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.Dan Brown / quote ↗
22c. 1964 ADTranshumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.Dan Brown / quote ↗
23c. 1964 ADFor me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law.Dan Brown / quote ↗
24c. 1964 ADWashington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.Dan Brown / quote ↗
