Humanitarian Scientist Quotes

“Many of the haters call me mental, which, by the way, is quite true, both metaphorically and clinically. It's true clinically because I am a person on the spectrum with OCD, and metaphorically, because I refuse to accept the sanity of unaccountability as the right way of civilized life. I am not going to glorify the issues of mental illness by saying that it's a super power or that it makes a person special. On the contrary, it makes things extremely difficult for a person.

But guess what! Indifference is far more dangerous than any mental illness. Because mental illness can be managed with treatment, but there is no treatment for indifference, there is no treatment for coldness, there is no treatment for apathy. So, let everyone hear it, and hear it well - in a world where indifference is deemed as sanity what's needed is a whole lot of mentalness, a whole lot of insanity, insanity for justice, insanity for equality, insanity for establishing the fundamental rights of life and living for each and every human being, no matter who they are, what they are, or where they are.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

“Burn my books, and go lift the world!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“When Calls A Promise:

I made a promise to someone that I would protect humankind with my life - that I would let no savagery, no prejudice, no sectarianism tear my people apart - that I would spend every breath of my life in uniting my people - the people of earth. And my very existence is the living manifestation of that promise.

Don't make promises that you know not whether you will be able to keep, but once you do make a promise, keep it at all cost, even at the cost of your life, which is exactly the kind of promise I made - to give my life in the unification of humankind.

Initially I thought I would achieve that by erasing the religious barriers amongst people. Hence, in the beginning I wrote ceaselessly on religion, but as I kept studying the tenets of the society, I came to realize that the barriers amongst people have invaded every aspect of life and society, much beyond the mere traditional bounds of religion - they have invaded the very lifeblood of society and have been tearing the society apart from inside out.

I came to realize that the religion of the future is not going to be christianity, islam, judaism or any such traditional system, rather, the religion of the future is going to be social justice. And the best way to shape the future is to envision it early on and start manufacturing it today. Thus, though initially the primary premise of my work was religion, eventually it acquired much wider and diverse societal roots.

My purpose remains the same, that is, to unite you all, to unite my seven billion sisters and brothers of earth, but I had to make a few changes to my approach based on the need of the time as I kept evolving with my work. I started off as a scientist, but the needs of the society turned me into a reformer.

Society needed not yet another scientist, it needed a reformer scientist, so I became one. All my life my need has been to serve the need of the society - need mark you, not desire. There is a difference between what the society desires and what it really needs. Society may desire for more bigotry, more segregation, more rigidity, more separatism, but that's not what the society needs - a civilized society needs humility, not bigotry - it needs inclusion, not segregation - it needs reason, not rigidity - it needs assimilation, not separatism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted

“I am Multiculturalism (The Sonnet)

I don't write on multiculturalism,
I am multiculturalism.
The only nationalism I care about,
is tribalism ending multinationalism.

I can't do it no more - I can't!
One little language is enough no more!
I gotta be the Himalayas in every language,
I gotta be the Himalayas in every culture.

Either you'll know me as a national hero
of every nation, or you won't know me at all.
So long as a single human calls me foreigner,
I'll conclude, I've achieved nothing at all.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“I don't write on multiculturalism,
I am multiculturalism.
The only nationalism I care about,
is tribalism ending multinationalism.

Either you'll know me as a national hero
of every nation, or you won't know me at all.
So long as a single human calls me foreigner,
I'll conclude, I've achieved nothing at all.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“I am a sufi poet, an advaitin philosopher, and a humanitarian scientist.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Call me poet, scientist or humanitarian, Naskar is the spirit of world integration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“I'm a muslim poet,
a humanitarian scientist,
and an advaitin philosopher.
Figure this out, and you'll
crack the Naskar enigma.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“I'm a muslim poet, a humanitarian scientist, and an advaitin philosopher.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Science and knowledge are two different things - knowledge is a celebration of facts, science is a celebration of life using facts.”
― Abhijit Naskar, L'humain Impossible: Cent Sonnets pour Ma Famille Mondiale

“Two Naskars (Sonnet 1541)

There's not one but two Naskars,
one humanitarian, the other sufi -
both rooted in a hatebusting blend
of reason and warmth, humanizing humanity.

The humanitarian sets fire to the blood,
the sufi makes ointment out of wounds.
Though the sufi came after the humanitarian,
it has only magnified the reformer's boon.

Along the journey of a humanitarian,
the sufi emerges from his soulful sea.
Cutting ties with all cave-age customs,
oneness is actualized in mindful diversity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“My divinity is not rooted
in god or scripture,
my divinity is rooted
in human welfare.

My science is not rooted
in cold logic venture,
my science is rooted
in human welfare.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“My science is not rooted in cold logic venture, my science is rooted in human welfare.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Life Love Liberty, Sonnet 1548
(Hayat Habib Huriyat)

My divinity is not rooted
in god or scripture,
my divinity is rooted
in human welfare.

My science is not rooted
in cold logic venture,
my science is rooted
in human welfare.

My philosophy is not rooted
in intellectual gymnastics,
my philosophy is rooted
in uprooting prejudice.

My Life is rooted in Love and Liberty.
Hayat Habib Huriyat, that's my identity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Measure of truth is the good it does, truth without heart is bigotry supreme.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Truth without heart is bigotry supreme.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Nascar is a race, Naskar is a journey.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“What is Truth (The Sonnet)

There is not one but two truths,
truth of facts and truth of good.
Truth of facts is worth the honor,
when it serves the truth of good.

Truth of facts thrives on logic,
an effective antidote to prejudice.
Where it sucks the sweetness of life,
truth of facts is carrier of malice.

Truth of facts is carrier of logic,
Truth of good is carrier of life.
Often times they cohabit the mind,
sometimes facts only undermine life.

Pride of truth is the good it does,
without which all facts are futile.
Truth of good is truth absolute,
absence of heart makes logic vile.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“There is not one but two truths,
truth of facts and truth of good.
Truth of facts is worth the honor,
when it serves the truth of good.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Pride of truth is the good it does.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“There is not one but two truths,
truth of facts and truth of good.
Truth of facts is worth the honor,
when it serves the truth of good.

Pride of truth is the good it does,
without which all facts are futile.
Truth of good is truth absolute,
absence of heart makes logic vile.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“I burnt my youth, so that you could have a torch. Take this torch and ignite yourself.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

“I'm just a mediocre scientist with an unworldly drive for integration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“At the end of the day I'm a behaviorist, and my mission is, not a world rooted in pure logic, nope - my mission is a world rooted in hearty logic and mindful fiction. So naturally I'm not gonna speak the lingo of any particular school of thought, intellectual or theological - rather, I speak in a manner, meant to bring out the best in people from all denominations across the spectrum. In short, there is purpose behind my every phrase, every idiom, every tone, tune, and rhythm - my goal is to engender neither science nor faith, but to establish universal assimilation. To understand me, you have to listen as a human, not as believer or nonbeliever, but as human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“If you bring electricity to a marginalized community with a simple solar power kit, it's a far greater scientific achievement than the gargantuan glories of the LHC.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Names Behind Naskar (Sonnet)

The world often wonders about my influences,
in doing so it often cooks up fake inspiration.
So I write this little sonnet memoir, so you're
aware of the crucial names in my ascension.

There is no Naskar the neuroscientist,
without, firstly Persinger, then Ramachandran;
there is no Naskar the poet, without Mevlana.
And among all your historic philosophers,
only appealed to me Tolstoy and Aquinas.

Then there are Ramanujan and Tesla,
with whom I've identified deeply.
And finally, to speak of my origin,
there is no Naskar the mission,
without Gadadhar Chatterjee.

These are my most cherished beings,
names that are never out of my mind.
None of them were flawless, none my god,
but they live rent free as part of my light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“I have neither the brain nor the desire, to be the most brilliant scientist in history, but I do wield all the capacities of time, to be the most spectacular human in history”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“I dropped out of computer engineering, and became Monk Scientist, to humanize the divine and divinize the human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“We need a life-centric understanding of truth, not truth-centric understanding of life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“By the time I'm finished with science, science would be more service centered than religion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock