The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6)

by Dan Brown

Seeing his physical shell was always unsettling. This body is not mine. I have simply manifested within it.

Einstein had famously declared: Coincidence is God’s way of staying anonymous.

Digital “whitewashing” was the only possible way for a person to remain outside this Echelon database. The network was U.S. owned and operated, meaning the American government could create “invisible people” simply by limiting search results to exclude any faces they preferred untraceable. This technique was employed often

After Hitler declared his intention to turn Prague into a “museum of an extinct race,” Petschek Villa was selected as a “trophy case” for Nazi triumph.

Langdon and Faukman often commiserated over the decline of written language due to the proliferation of “textese” emoticons and abbreviations.

I do this for all who have been abused here. For you…for me…and for all those to come.

A growing number of physicists now believe our universe is arranged like a fractal, which would suggest each person in this room contains every other person, and there is no separation between us. We are one consciousness.

“What is PALM?” “Photoactivated localization microscopy—a brain imaging technique. Threshold genetically encoded their artificial neurons with fluorescent proteins so they could, in effect, see them…and track their growth. Clever idea—theirs, not mine.”

The spiral ramp had left him increasingly disoriented, and the exit at Crucifix Bastion felt farther away with every step. Being spotted way down here, Langdon now feared, would result in an alarm being sounded, making escape nearly impossible.

A guardian angel cannot sleep.

Incredibly, her experiments had revealed that a dreaming brain was similar to a dying brain. In both instances, GABA levels plummeted, thus lowering the brain’s filters, opening the door to wider bandwidths of information.