Quotes by Abhijit Naskar

“Everybody falls - make your fall spectacular and rise like a god, so that watching you even the voiceless regain their voice and the weak regain their strength.”

“Neither fortune, nor opportunity, nor ancestry, nor wealth - nothing determines your destiny - there is only one question that determines your destiny - will you give up after coming all this way?”

“The more the obstructions the greater your impact.”

“Fall down but never back down.”

“No great achievement is possible without madness.”

“Outfits dont define your character, your behavior does. Great achievements are born, not from fancy suits, but from great minds. And great minds do not need suits to feel and look important. Only the shallow look at outfits, but the wise knows to look beyond. Look at the person beyond the outfit.”

“Time is basically an illusion created by the mind to aid in our sense of temporal presence in the vast ocean of space. Without the neurons to create a virtual perception of the past and the future based on all our experiences, there is no actual existence of the past and the future. All that there is, is the present.”

“Only the coward says, time and tide wait for none, the valiant lives and works to build new time and to cause new tide.”

“Tell them a lie big enough, theyll worship you as a sage. Tell them a truth big enough and theyll mock you.”

“Faith in God is optional, but faith in the self – in the spirit within, is imperative.”

“The ultimate goal of humanity is knowledge.”

“Science is like a candle, it can light up a room or it can burn down a house - in the hands of the responsible scientist it lights up the world but in the hands of the empty scientist itll burn the whole world to ashes.”

“Science is a peerless force for good, but a little knowledge of science is dangerous, it makes you cynical towards anything that is not logical.”

“Question leads to correction and correction leads to growth.”

“Religion that doesnt evolve destroys the world in the name of faith and science that doesnt evolve destroys the world in the name of advancement.”

“Lesser the needs, better the life.”

“Thats where science differs from atheism. Atheism thrives on facts, whereas science is not simply about discovering facts, science is about discovering facts and then applying them for the betterment of society.”

“All power must be guided by a caring, humane hand, and not by pride or self-interest, be it artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, neurotechnology, or anything else.”

“Ten average scientists with a strong sense of humanity can do more good to the world than a hundred brilliant scientists with weak humanity.”

“So long as millions starve and live without a roof, I hold every feat of technological achievement a mockery of human life.”