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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.

— Mary Doria Russell, American Novelist

I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.

— Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize winning Structural Biologist

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

— Mark Twain, American Writer

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

— Robert G. Ingersoll, American Lawyer

I don’t believe in taking right decisions. Take decisions and make them right.

— Ratan Tata, Indian Industrialist

The best brains of the Nation may be found on the last benches of the Classroom

—  A.P.J.Abdul Kalam, Former Indian President

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

— E.M. Forster, English Novelist

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

— Albert Einstein, Theoretical Physicist

Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature: it is part of the interplay between us and nature.

— Heisenberg, German Theoretical Physicist

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. – In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

— Steve Allen, Actor
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