No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self.
Ask the right questions, and nature will open the doors to her secrets.
Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.
It is no small art to sleep: for that purpose you must keep awake all day.
Keep in mind my friend, if an answer is not rational, then it is not an answer, but a delusion.”
Writing my own novels in the ’90s…I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor.
I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!