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

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.

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

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

I am a work in progress.

We are responsible for our own relationships, their successes, their failures, the good times, the bad times. Take responsibility for creating the relationships that you desire.

Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.

There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.

I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear

Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.

That loyalty to the country comes ahead of all other loyalties. And this is an absolute loyalty, since one cannot weight it in terms of what one receives.

The kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us re-order this world around us.

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.

Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.