The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6)

by Dan Brown

Morgan Robertson—an American author who published the 1898 novel Futility, which he based on a vivid nightmare he had about an unsinkable ocean liner—The Titan—striking an iceberg and sinking on one of its first voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. Incredibly, the book was published fourteen years before the Titanic disaster. It so specifically described the ship’s construction, navigational course, and sinking that the coincidences had never been explained.

Social media, Dana thought. The biggest intelligence boon since the Catholic Church invented confession.

Timor mortis est pater religionis, Langdon mused, recalling the ancient saying made famous by Upton Sinclair. Fear of death is the father of religion.

Historically speaking, important truths often begin their lives as total impossibilities.

Akashic Field,

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“The ultimate test of a man’s conscience is his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.”

The only religions that survived were those offering a solution to humankind’s greatest fear.

“but I happen to know that Q holds patents for silicon chips embedded with a sealed layer of hydrofluoric acid that can be released by a phone call to dissolve the entire processor.”

“Fear makes us selfish,”