It is always darkest before the dawn. - Dan Brown

But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?

There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense....a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve

Coincidence was a concept he did not entirely trust. As someone who had spent his life exploring the hidden interconnectivity of disparate emblems and ideologies, Langdon viewed the world as a web of profoundly intertwined histories and events. The connections may be invisible, he often preached to his symbology classes at Harvard, but they are always there, buried just beneath the surface.