"Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it."

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Source : Subhash Kak (1994). “The astronomical code of the Ṛgveda”

Subhash Kak

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“Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.”
“The vast majority of psychopaths, like an iceberg, are underwater, and like an iceberg, they are inert. They do nothing. They're just there. They torment their spouse by being unempathic, but they don't beat her or kill her. They bully coworkers, but they don't burn the office. They are not dramatic. They are pernicious. Most psychopaths are subtle. They are more like poison than a knife, and they are more like slow-working poison than cyanide.”
“It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness.”
“The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.”
“When is a game more than a game? So often, we pay lip service to the uplifting power of sports, the teamwork, the camaraderie, the lessons in taming one's own ego for the sake of the group. But you have to wonder, how often is that still really true?”

Source : "Lebron James: 'More Than A Game' - Part II". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 15, 2009.
“What the economy requires now is a whole different set of skills: You need intelligence, you need an ability to sit still and focus, to communicate openly to be able to listen to people and to operate in a workplace that is much more fluid than it used to be. Those are things that women do extremely well.”
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.”
“I like to work around identification for the audience, and when there's a grown-up or a moral figure or something like that, people tend to go there.”

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