"If we are able to meet these two requirements - regularity in meditation and leading a good life in society, day-to-day a good life - then nothing would be unattainable by us."

“It feels great to discover a planet, just like any discovery in science, except that it has more of the feel of exploration - you can go back and look at it. However, I can never visit.”

Source : "Starmen: Wolfgang Tillmans meets Dimitar Sasselov". Interview with Chris Hatherill, www.dazeddigital.com. August 20, 2010.

“A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.”

“But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.”

Source : Benjamin Lee Whorf, John Bissell Carroll (1964). “Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf”, p.135, MIT Press

“Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.”

“The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future too.”

“Happiness is the ability to recognize it.”

“Human beings tend to be conservative, so if you lie, you'll probably be closer to the truth.”

Source : Sonya Sones (2010). “What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

“True liars never love. True lovers never lie.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 5, 2011