Deception Point

by Dan Brown

If this discovery is confirmed, it will surely be one of the most stunning insights into our universe that science has ever uncovered. Its implications are as far-reaching and awe-inspiring as can be imagined. Even as it promises answers to some of our oldest questions, it poses still others even more fundamental. President Bill Clinton, in a press conference following a discovery known as ALH84001 on August 7, 1996

Keeping information from the director of the NRO was like keeping Vatican secrets from the Pope.

In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history’s modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then go back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.’

‘Sometimes all it takes to unravel something is a single strand.

Something I need to remember at times like these.