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

"Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment."

"God's will is your deepest desires."

"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."

"So long as they speak your name, you shall never die."

"Learning the truth has become my life's love."

"I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress."

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

"The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know."

"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."

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

"Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand."

"For 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."

"That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove."

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

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

"Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species."

"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."

"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."

"Forgiveness is God's greatest gift."

"History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?"

"Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for the power that created us."

"Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves."

"Great minds are always feared by lesser minds."

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

"The 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."

"Very 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."

"Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces. We must seize every opportunity to show kindness and to love fully."

"Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand."

"The most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears."

"Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire."

"Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power."

"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."

"Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed."

"God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'."

"No love is greater than that of a father for His son."

"How do you feel?He rubbed his stomach. "Like I've been eating Styrofoam."

"Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors."

"Washington, 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."

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

"I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller."

"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."

"How can it be that the modern human mind is capable of precise logical analysis, and yet simultaneously permits us to accept religious beliefs that should crumble beneath even the slightest rational scrutiny?"

"In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves."

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

"God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change."

"The greatest story ever told is, in fact, the greatest story ever sold."

"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."

"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."

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