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

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

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

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.

When we don’t allow setbacks to defeat us, they become opportunities for learning, acceptance, flexibility, and patience.

I knew from experience that no matter how much you turn things in your head, trying to make sense of them, some people just defy all logic.

Choice is an illusion, what we eat is again illusion, nothing matters when it's illusion... so how did you survive???

Narcissists only play for their own business, whereas Distortionists play with other’s business only to gain personal advantage. If you are both, then you aren’t an entrepreneur.

One who knows nothing can understand nothing.

This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.

I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

I like to talk about America. It's so mysterious.

Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.

Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?