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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!

— J.K.Rowling, Author

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

— Abhijit Naskar, Author

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

— Isaac Newton, Physicist

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

— Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize winning Structural Biologist

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

— Lars Von Trier,  Danish film director

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

— Robert G. Ingersoll, American Lawyer

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

— Charles Dickens, English Writer

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

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

— Gilles Deleuze, French Philosopher

I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures.

— CV Raman, Indian Physicist
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