Poet Scientist Quotes

“The pen is my paradise, the pen is my grave.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Science and poetry are not so different after all. In science, the more you learn, the more you realize, how much you don't know. In poetry, the more you write, the more you realize, you got no clue, how you flow.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“My brain is multilingual,
my heart is multicultural,
my life is multidimensional,
I exist for I dissolve in all.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“I have nothing to lose, no reputation, no image, no class.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Sometimes I'm Dervish, sometimes Advaita, and the Brain Scientist keeps out the superstition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“In the Naskar world, sonnet is not an elitist structure of rigid rhyme and meter, Naskar sonnet is a self-contained unit of civilization, indifferent to literary convention.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Childish eurocentric conventions are too puny to contain the vastness of a transcendental human, sometimes I'm Dervish, sometimes Advaita, and the Brain Scientist keeps out the superstition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“What is A Naskar Sonnet (2312)

In the Naskar world, sonnet is not
an elitist structure of rigid rhyme and meter,
Naskar sonnet is a self-contained unit of
civilization, indifferent to literary convention.

I weave sonnets around the message,
instead of forcing the message into the sonnets.
Till you cut the cuffs of form, don't touch my works,
if you want method and structure, pursue mathematics.

Childish eurocentric conventions are too puny
to contain the vastness of a transcendental human,
sometimes I'm Dervish, sometimes Advaita,
and the Brain Scientist keeps out the superstition.

Every mind is infinite, every mind, transcendental,
ape customs castrate the human into farm animal.
Cut the wings of a dove at birth,
and it'll spend its life crawling like vermin.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“I wear my backbone as battery, brain is my currency, heart is my bedrock, character is my legacy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“I'm colored, I'm scientist, I'm poet, I'm polyglot - coming from zero money, I won the world with words. Try and get your puny white brains around this existence enigma.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“My writings are not decoration, but wirings of civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“First tolerance, then scripture.
First conscience, then science.
First empathy, then philosophy.
First ethics, then engineering.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“First I was a monk, then I was a scientist, later I was a poet, finally I am the Human Race.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“My favorite answer of all is, 'I don't know' - in the absence of rigorous investigation that's the answer I fall back on the most.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“We're all brief, astonishing configuration of atoms, capable of tremendous hate or boundless love - the choice is ours.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“There are two kinds of truth in the world, empirical truth and human truth - empirical truth is all about facts, human truth is more than facts - human truth applies facts wisely among other instruments to uplift human condition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

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

“Neuroscience is poetry.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Neuroscience done honestly dissolves the self.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“I burnt my reputation to the ground, so I could stand as an undomesticated beacon, doesn't matter if no one comes to my aid, I have no desire to be worshipped by gibbons.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Logic doesn't become science until you breathe empathy into it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Educated on the streets, enlightened in the soil, my role on earth is to inject the brains with humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“When The Dervish Burns (Excerpt)

You cannot have a brain,
and complacent too.
You cannot have backbone,
and conformist too.

You cannot have heart,
and host prejudice too.
You cannot be human,
and popular too.

You cannot have a self,
and not burn it.
You cannot have a life,
and not sacrifice it.

You cannot have eyes,
and not see through lies.
You cannot have ears,
and not hear the tears.

You cannot aim for the stars,
while failing life on earth.
You have zero right to luxury,
while children suffer and starve.

You cannot have faith,
and fail tolerance.
You cannot have science,
and fail at service.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Philosophy is just a kid brother to theology.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“There is no place for nationalism in science,
there is no place for fanaticism in holiness,
there is no place for hate-commerce in arts,
there is no place for borders in consciousness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Scriptures don't bear holiness, Facts don't bear science. These are mere records of human experience - they can do good only if applied with conscience.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“You keep asking, how do I write so immense - I keep asking, where's the off switch for this! Every time I decide to take a breather, ideas start pouring, so I keep typing restless.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“The Invisible Writer (Sonnet 2654)

When I unveil a new book cover, you'd naturally assume that I know what I'm gonna write, but let me tell you a secret, in strictest confidence -

I don't, I never have any clue what my next book is going to be about - by dropping the cover I just make an appointment, with some invisible force inside, and when the time comes, the book starts pouring on its own, all I do is take dictation.

You see, I hate writing from thought, I used to, the first two years, but then I got introduced to the actual writer within, who does not need outside sources, because outside sources, academic or religious, are too backward and downright shortsighted -

which is why, things written from thought are too dull for my taste, I may accept basic data, but never thought, not even my own - for the canon to be magical it has to be born of spontaneous combustion, verse by verse, manuscript by manuscript - otherwise it's not Naskar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Jai Insaan, Cheytna Saagar;
Jai Vivek, Vidyut Ujaagar.
Koi bole water, koi bole paani;
Koi bole darvish, koi sanyaasi.

Utho Insaan, Marham ka Sagar;
Ana al Haq, Vigyan Ujaagar.
Koi bole water, koi bole paani;
Koi bole scientist, koi bole sufi.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I am the laboratory,
I am the court room,
I am the operating theatre,
I am the decontamination zone.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock