Be not the one who debunks but the one who assembles, not the one who lifts the rugs from under the feet of the naive believers but the one who offers arenas in which to gather.

India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed.

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms

Technology is society made durable.

Reality is what resists.

Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.

We would be better off thinking of nature as a tiger than as a docile and compliant automaton that can never threaten our survival.

My kingdom for a more embodied body

The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.

If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term.

Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.

Why bother getting married, going through all the pomp and pageantry, if you didn't think it was going to last? It was far easier to live in sin and not have to deal with the paperwork.

Coz, " he said. "You really must learn to shut your mouth from time to time. You'll taste less shoe letter.

Don't spend money on gear. Spend it on plane tickets.

Love's a dog in a manger.

I am always a big believer that if you work hard enough and you work out of passion, a person can do anything.

I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men's bones.

There is nothing more mysterious about the concept human nature than about the concept bee or chicken nature, at least for those who regard humans as creatures in the biological world.

If things sometimes get tough, you can't ask yourself what impact it's having on you. It isn't an option.

Yon grey lines That fret the clouds are messengers of day.