Quotes

Science:

1. Science is written in the language of mathematics – Galileo.                                                                                
2. The whole is more than the sum of its parts – Aristotle.    
3. Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration – Edison.
4. The Universe likes speed – anonymous.
5. Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things – Newton.
6.  I have not failed, I have found 1000 ways that do not work – Edison.
7. Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood – Marie Curie.
8. Anything you can do in classical physics, you can do better in quantum physics – Daniel Klepper.
9. Protons give an atom its identity, electrons give it a personality – Bill Bryson.
10. It is a staggeringly small world that is below – Richard Feymann.
11. Life does more than adapt to earth, it changes the earth to its own purpose – James Lovelock.
12. Does the flap of a butterfly wing set up a tornado in Texas? – Edward Lorenz.
13. Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour, sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity. – Einstein.
14. I thought I was pretty cool until I realised that plants can eat the sun and poop out air – Jim Bugg.
15. Chaos: When the present determine the future but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future – Edward Lorenz.
16. With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our own DNA, and improve the human race – Stephen Hawking.
17. In an infinite multiverse, there is no such thing as fiction – Scot Adsit.
18. Extinction is the rule, survival is the exception – Carl Sagan.
19. The fact that life exists on earth does not mean that life started on earth – Chandra Wickramsinghe.
20. The Eagle has landed – Neil Armstrong.

MK Gandhi:

1.      Be the change you would like to see in the world.
2.       If the individual ceases to count, what is left of the society?
3.       Strength does not come from physical capacity, it comes from an indomitable will.
4.       The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
5.       One who has appreciated the value of knowledge is a student all his life.
6.       Our children must be taught, from infancy, the dignity of labour.
7.       Non-violence, in its dynamic condition, means conscious suffering. It does not mean meek submission to the will of the evil-doer, but it means pitting of one’s whole soul against the will of the tyrant.

Swami Vivekananda and Tagore:

1.      If you want to live life, you need to die every moment for it.
2.       Take up an idea. Make that idea your life. Think of it. Dream of it. Live on that idea and leave every             other idea alone. That is the way to success.
3.      To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance and will. “I will drink the ocean. At my will, the            mountains will crumble.” says the persevering soul. Have that sort of energy, that sort of will. Work hard    and you will reach your goal.
4.     You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
5.      Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
6.      Age considers, youth ventures.
7.     We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
8.     While God waits for his temple to be built of love, man brings stones.
9.     I slept and I dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold: Service          was joy.

The world is imagination. The throbbing of prana makes the mind move. The movement of mind in turn brings into being a wondrous universe with myriad names and forms. The creation of the universe is due to movement of mind and it operates both in waking and dream states of consciousness; therefore the world appears in these states. The mind borrows its intelligence and its light from its source – Pure Consciousness. The perishable Universe has no existence other than the mind. With annihilation of the mind, the subjective Universe comes to an end.