Good Scientist Quotes

“When you diminish others to elevate yourself, you only diminish yourself further.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“When you diminish others to elevate yourself, you only diminish yourself further.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“The first step of building a good future is to recognize the reality of the present and then work through that reality.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“Ignorance is not bliss, but acceptance of ignorance is.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“The beauty that you see with your eyes,
Is but an illusive sign of fertility.
The beauty that you see with your mind,
Is a sign of life, truth and eternity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“The very existence of social media is predicated on humankind's primitive drive of attention seeking. And when they successfully monetize your attention, they end up with billions of dollars and you end up with a screwed up mental state. And if we don't do anything about it now, the next generation will be a generation of mentally unstable glass creatures.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“Let expression be the reason for expression, not attention.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“Discussion can solve problems that guns and pills cannot.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“Criticism is the weapon of the shallow, scrutiny is tool of the wise.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“We the experts in cognitive and behavioral sciences can predict human behavior but not human potential. What this means is that, though we can tell how a person is likely to feel, think and behave in a certain situation, we still cannot tell what a person is capable of. Hence the possibilities that a person holds in their neurons are immeasurable.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“I urge all responsible citizens across the world to demand the parliament of your country to ban the use of any social media platform that doesn't have a health hazard warning on their welcome screen stating "excessive use of this platform can cause severe mental health problems".”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“Light doesn't say 'o look at me, I am so bright' - all it does is shine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“An accountable waitress is more capable of running a nation than a bigoted scholar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“Churches don't hold divinity, human hearts do.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“Till luxury becomes a thing of the past, equality will remain a thing of the future.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“Decisions of life must be made based on the needs of the living, not of the dead.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“Whether Jesus turning water into wine - whether Mecca moving around following the feet of Nanak - whether Krishna lifting a mountain on his finger - it's all fiction - which were written not to inform the public but to make them accept a certain figure as the authority of their lives.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“Often pastors as well as my fellow scientists ask me - are you a believer or non-believer - I smile and reply, all I care about is to abolish the barriers that people have raised among themselves. I work to create living Christs in every field of society to take care of every corner of the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“What does the river, the trees, the sun care about the concept of God - their sole purpose is to sustain life on earth - and so is mine. Christ made his sacrifice for his love for society, I have made my sacrifice for my love for society, and I believe strongly more than anything else, that this tradition of sacrifice will continue through many more Christs and Naskars, so long as there is human suffering on earth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“We may each be good at certain things but all of us are a bunch of dum-dums in most things.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“To light one candle in the cottage of a poor villager is a thousand times holier than lighting a thousand candles in the church.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“If you want to leave something for your children, leave a better world, not heaps of money, because at the rate our ancestors screwed up this world and at the rate we are sustaining their stupidity in our pursuit of limitless productivity, soon all the money in the world will not be enough to save our children from imminent disaster.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“Future is born out of the present not separate from it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“We do not need to make up supernatural stories to believe in the goodness of great characters - goodness and greatness do not require magical nonsense to survive in a society of civilized beings.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“The more people act different, the more they act the same”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“The only absolute truth is the world humans is love – there is nothing higher, there is nothing greater.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“Present is the gateway to the future.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“Unless a bunch of lionhearts are sleepless for society, the society can never sleep in peace.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“Human potential is incomputable.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“The first step of building a good future is to recognize the reality of the present and then work through that reality. With one hand I support the present and with another I build the future. With one hand I support patriotism and with another I work towards universalism. With one hand I support good democracy and with another I work towards meritocracy. With one hand I support good politicians and with another I build the future without politics.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine