"…In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves."
"emotionless tone hurting as much as the news"
"I am not questioning God's power! It is God who gave us reason and circumspection! It is God we serve by exercising prudence!"
"Energetically speaking, antimatter is the mirror image of matter, so the two instantly cancel each other out if they come in contact.Keeping antimatter isolated from matter is a challenge, of course, because everything on earth is made of matter. The samples have to be stored without ever touching anything at all—even air."
"Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories...legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of God's hands?"
"Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand."
"He respected the power of faith, the benevolence of churches, the strength religion gave so many people . . . and yet, for him, the one intellectual suspension of disbelief that was imperative if one were truly going to "believe" had always proved too big an obstacle for his academic mind. "I want to believe," he heard himself say."
"Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed."
"the Z-particle Pure energy—no mass at all. It may well be thesmallest building block in nature. Matter is nothing but trapped energy."
"Leonardo believed his research had thepotential to convert millions to a more spiritual life. Last year he categorically proved the existence ofan energy force that unites us all. He actually demonstrated that we are all physically connected… that the molecules in your body are intertwined with the molecules in mine… that there is a single force moving within all of us."
"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."
"One square yard of drag will slow a falling body almost twenty percent."
"Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic research, medicine—they all make mistakes. Science needs to survive its own blunders, at any cost. For everyone’s sake.”Vittoria was amazed at Kohler’s ability to weigh moral issues with scientific detachment. His intellect seemed to be the product of an icy divorce from his inner spirit. “You think CERN is so critical to the earth’s future that we should be immune from moral responsibility?"
"She lay outside in the courtyard, staring up at the raindrops… feeling them hit her body… trying to guess where one would land next. The nuns called again, threatening that pneumonia might make an insufferably headstrong child a lot less curious about nature."
"Isn’t antimatter what fuels the U.S.S.Enterprise?"
"God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change."
"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"
"The carved stone sign in front read Building C.Imaginative title, Langdon thought"
"Good science fiction has its roots in good science."
"We were at sixty thousand feet. You’re thirty percent lighter upthere."
"Death is only a byproduct of terrorism."
"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."