Abhijit Naskar

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

"“Tell them a lie big enough, they'll worship you as a sage. Tell them a truth big enough and they'll mock you.”"

"“For self-educated scientists and thinkers such as Charles Darwin, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Leonardo-da-Vinci, Michael Faraday, myself and many others, education is a relentless voyage of discovery. To us education is an everlasting quest for knowledge and wisdom.”"

"“How dare a person tell a woman, how to dress, how to talk, how to behave! Any being who does that, is no human.”"

"I dream of a world where Science shapes the structure of a society, rather than politics."

"The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings."

"A doctor's mission should not be to prevent death, but more importantly it should be to improve the quality of life."

"No nation can truly develop unless fanaticism, primitive superstitions and metaphysical non-sense are eradicated."

"Mankind, not womankind, has slaughtered more humans in the name of God and Religion than for any other reason."

"If one does not have the basic conscientious capacity to refute the primitive textual verses of the scriptures that demand one to kill or torture another being for holding a different belief system than one's own, then that entity is no being of the civilized human society, it is merely a pest from the stone-age."

"The solution you seek, can be found nowhere else but within you."

"All religions are born from individual experiences of divine awakening, not from some books."

"It is necessary for the future scientists interested in the field of Neurotheology, to have a bit naïve approach towards the whole idea of God and religion beyond the conventional labels of religion and atheism."

"The frog in the well knows nothing more grand than its own tiny well."

"Philosophy lets you imagine the infinity, and Science makes you get there."

"If you are a student of science and still haven't studied the works of Tesla, then your entire scientific education has been a waste of time. Because most of the technological wonders of 21st Century, which the modern humans are so proud of, are the product of one marvellous human mind - Nikola Tesla."

"Scientific Religion is compatible with Science and in fact, they enrich each other. That's because scientific religion is simply the realization of divinity within one's heart. Therefore, Science and Scientific Religion smoothen each other's path of progress. While on the contrary, far from being compatible with Science, Theoretical Religion consistently tries to impede the development of human society. Moreover, being rigidly based on bookish doctrines, it keeps making efforts to drag the human society back to the Stone Age. I am afraid, if you don't act now, the relentless battle between Theoretical Religions will turn this beautiful planet which we call home, into a barren wasteland."

"It's about religious acceptance, it's no longer about religious tolerance."

"Practice creates more connections among the neurons, which push you a little further towards perfection."

"The book-learned preacher who carries the badge of authority, is by no means religious."