Brainy Quotes Life Lessons Quotes

“Don’t let the situation say stop to your true purpose;say stop to the situation. Situations are situations and you are you”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Dare to contradict the scientist, not because of your scripture, but because of your own rational thinking.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Genes come together to construct a magnificent life-form, while neurons come together to form our Illusion of Consciousness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?

“When Mother Nature speaks, even the Gods hold silence.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“I am like the H2O in a lake. Some drink it at one place and call it “water”, others at another place and call it “jal”, and some others at a third place and call it “pani”. The Christians call it “water”, the Hindus “jal”, and the Muslims ”pani”. But it is one and the same thing. I am not tied to the doctrines of any church, synagogue, temple or mosque, yet I am the reason of their birth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Autobiography of God: Biopsy of A Cognitive Reality

“Don't judge people by their religious, cultural, or professional background. Judge if you must, by their behavior with other people.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Good and evil are both within us. And when our primitive ancestors humanized these natural qualities of the mind, they got two completely opposite supernatural characters. One was the merciful lord almighty and the other was the wicked devil.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Quantum Mechanics can indeed be extremely complex to grasp, but when we talk about Consciousness, with decades of rigorous studies on the human brain we have realized that actually, there is no other phenomenon in the entire universe that is simpler than the majestic phenomenon of Consciousness.
'If you think you have a solution to the problem of consciousness, you haven’t understood the problem.' This age-old metaphysical and philosophical argument is strictly not true. If you are sufficiently clear-sighted enough, you can realize the problem itself was a matter of the past when we didn’t have insight into the neurological basis of consciousness. And today it is common knowledge in Neuroscience that, all mesmerizing features of the Human Mind, including the glorious Human Consciousness, are born from the tiny specks of jelly inside your head.”
― Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?

“Neuroscience makes us connect with each other at an emotional level. It makes us make friends. It makes us dream more positively. It makes us more optimistic about ourselves and the world even in our darkest days. It makes us achieve our goal endowed with strength even through immense miseries. It allows us to attain the subjective reality of our fellow humans. Imbued with the understanding of the mind we can walk in the shoes of other people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

“The service of humanity, is the service of God.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“​I wanted to present Neuroscience to people in a way that would diminish their differences.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

“You can only be yourself unless you accept yourself”
― Thabiso Monkoe, The Azanian

“Life is a box of surprises and that's why it often seems empty”
― Rafsan Al Musawver