Reality is what resists.

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.

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.

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.

Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber rounds. We shoot a helicopter out of the sky. That's the only fight I'm in.

The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.

Not everything is about you," Clary said furiously. "Possibly," Jace said, "but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.

Dogs are the broccaflower of the animal kingdom.

Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.

We're all subject to the daily pressures of consumer persuasion.

I should never stand alone in this desert world, but that manna would drop from heaven, if I would but rise with every rising sun to gather it.

It's not tipping I believe in. It's overtipping.