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Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.

— Abhijit Naskar, Author

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery we are trying to solve.

— Max Planck, German Theoretical Physicist

That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

— George Orwell, English Novelist

Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.

— Douglas Adams, English Author

Ask the right questions, and nature will open the doors to her secrets.

— CV Raman, Indian Physicist

Go to Heaven for the climate. Hell for the company.

— Mark Twain, American Writer

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

— Thomas Hexley, English Biologist

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

— Mark Twain, American Writer

I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

— Thomas Edison, American Inventor

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.

— Thomas Pynchon, American Novelist
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