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“Spiritual humility is not about getting small, not about debasing oneself, but about approaching everything and everyone else with a readiness to see goodness and to be surprised. This is the humility of a child, which Jesus lauded. It is the humility of the scientist and the mystic. It has a lightness of step, not a heaviness of heart. That lightness is the surest litmus test I know for recognizing wisdom when you see it in the world or feel its stirrings in yourself. The questions that can lead us are already alive in our midst, waiting to be summoned and made real. It is a joy to name them. It is a gift to plant them in our senses, our bodies, the places we inhabit, the part of the world we can see and touch and help to heal. It is a relief to claim our love of each other and take that on as an adventure, a calling. It is a pleasure to wonder at the mystery we are and find delight in the vastness of reality that is embedded in our beings. It is a privilege to hold something robust and resilient called hope, which has the power to shift the world on its axis.”
― Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living

“So a scientist and an engineer are tossed into separate rooms, stocked with tools and parts, and told that they aren't allowed out until they've produced a working prototype for a radio receiver. After two days, the scientist has covered the walls in scribbling and looks like a mad man, raving about how not only is it impossible to build a receiver with the parts given but that he's proven that radio is theoretically impossible anyway. When they check on the engineer, they find that he'd built the receiver in less than a day, fashioned a crude speaker and antenna, and had found a radio broadcast he liked and hadn't bothered to tell them he'd finished.”
― Joshua Dalzelle

“My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. “Izzy,�� she would say, “did you ask a good question today?�� That difference �� asking good questions �� made me become a scientist.”
― Isidor Isaac Rabi

“Gemini....You revere scientists and shamans alike,
providing them with what they need to do their good work for the enhancement of the realm."
(Rob Brezsny)”
― Lesley Thomas

“Dare to contradict the scientist, not because of your scripture, but because of your own rational thinking.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“I am a monk at heart - a scientist at brain - a philosopher at conscience.”
― Abhijit Naskar, I Am The Thread: My Mission

“How does it happen that a properly endowed natural scientist comes to concern himself with epistemology? Is there no more valuable work in his specialty? I hear many of my colleagues saying, and I sense it from many more, that they feel this way. I cannot share this sentiment. When I think about the ablest students whom I have encountered in my teaching, that is, those who distinguish themselves by their independence of judgment and not merely their quick-wittedness, I can affirm that they had a vigorous interest in epistemology. They happily began discussions about the goals and methods of science, and they showed unequivocally, through their tenacity in defending their views, that the subject seemed important to them. Indeed, one should not be surprised at this.”
― Albert Einstein

“Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission.”
― Abhijit Naskar, I Am The Thread: My Mission

“There is an overflowing grace, for every great work.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“I am a great female scientist.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Never question the conviction of a scientist, based on mere scriptures.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Be naive and curious. That's all you need to become a scientist.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality

“Sophistication is not science people, simplicity is.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“For any scientist the real challenge is not to stay within the secure garden of the known but to venture out into the wilds of the unknown.”
― Marcus du Sautoy, The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

“Liberty is my religion and Humans are my God.”
― Abhijit Naskar, I Am The Thread: My Mission

“إن الإنسان يعلو كل شيء في الدنيا ، فإذا انحطّ وتدهور ، فإن احتمال الحضارة ، بل حتى عظمة الدنيا المادية ، لن تلبث أن تزول وتتلاشى . ألكسيس كاريل / الإنسان ذلك المجهول”
― أليكسس كاريل, الإنسان ذلك المجهول

“I felt a new wave of irritation, squelched it as I kicked into scientist mode. First rule: block mind-set. Don’t suspect, don’t fear, don’t hope for any outcome. Observe, weigh, measure, and record.

Second rule: block emotion. Leave sorrow, pity, and outrage for later. Anger or grief can lead to error and misjudgment. Mistakes do your victim no good.”
― Kathy Reichs, Bones of the Lost

“Identify your divine gift and use it to serve humanity.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“I am a great scientist.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“But men are funny about their wars, they act as if they own them, and perhaps they do, for I don't think women ever start them.”
― Pippa Goldschmidt, The Need for Better Regulation of Outer Space

“As a rationalist, pragmatist, and a scientist I rarely involve myself in the cosmological arguments of the creation of the universe.”
― Debasish Mridha

“What the scientists are apt to forget: the difference between quantity and quality is one of quality, not of -quantity.”
― Nanamoli Thera

“In a nice little house in Atro City there lived a man called Doktor Gleichstein. He was a kind of scientist, and he was very good at his job, which is why he always worked from home. He looked a little funny because he kept losing his eyebrows. Quantum Physics, is sort of like ordinary Physics, only you tend to spend a lot more time looking for the cat. He worked in the sitting room because he’d blown the garage up once already. Apparently a lot of things happened by accident in Quantum Physics.”
― Christina Engela, Innocent Minds

“Science is the human endeavor to elevate the self and the society from the darkness of ignorance into the light of wisdom.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth, nor did I have access to information like you do today via the internet. I had to learn everything the hard way. And I had to become a scientist the old-fashioned way, which is, not through academia, but through trial and error. And my hardship opened up unforeseen gateways of perception in my mind. And through these gateways, today the whole world is able to see its inner self.”
― Abhijit Naskar, I Am The Thread: My Mission

“Even a great philosophical idea when mixed with mysticism, turns into a dangerous weapon that becomes an impediment in the path of progress of developing communities.”
― Abhijit Naskar, I Am The Thread: My Mission

“My mission is to make the external God of human society obsolete in front of humanity’s internal Godliness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, 7 Billion Gods: Humans Above All

“Interestingly enough, whenever I cite examples from superhero comic books in a lecture, my students never wonder when they will use this information in their "real life". Apparently they all have plans, post-graduation, that involve protecting the City from all threat while wearing spandex. As a law-abiding citizen, this notion fills me with a great sense of security, knowing as I do how many of my scientist colleagues could charitably be termed "mad".”
― James Kakalios, The Physics of Superheroes: Spectacular Second Edition