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What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?

— Emmanuel Levinas, French philosopher

The cooperative structure never encourages huge bureaucratic systems, for it knows that mammoth bureaucracies cannot be sensitive to the needs of people.

— Vikram Sarabhai, Indian Scientist

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

— Socrates, Greek Philosopher 

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

— Thomas Edison, American Inventor

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

— Albert Einstein, Theoretical Physicist

What, therefore, is a government at its best? It is a government that “governs” least and instead finds ways to mobilise the energies of our people.

— Vikram Sarabhai, Indian Scientist

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

— Thomas Hexley, English Biologist

Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.

— Heath Ledger, Actor

No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self.

— Abhijit Naskar, Author

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

— Lars Von Trier,  Danish film director
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