Poet Scientist Quotes

“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

“Science doesn't make someone a better person, if it did, no physicist would help develop nuclear weapons, or no biologist would help develop biological weapons.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“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

“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

“Apply the brain, but lead with heart.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Science doesn't make someone a better person, if it did, no physicist would help develop nuclear weapons, or no biologist would help develop biological weapons. Science, like religion, follows the command of power, given enough incentive 99% of the world's scientists would gladly help wipe out half the world's population. Which is why, what's needed is that a good person becomes scientist, otherwise a scientist is of as much use to the world as a politician.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Anybody can inspire the youth to become scientists, any trustfund white guy or even chatgpt can do that, the point of Naskar is to ignite Servant Scientists, because if a scientist does not burn with the fire of service, they are no better than religious fanatics.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Don't place me in the lineage of your tribal white giants, they were cute little smart kids, but that's all, my peers of heart used to write in arabic, turkish, persian, and sanskrit.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Science-heavy works are not necessarily truth-heavy works, just like scripture-heavy works are not necessarily divine-heavy works.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“The only wealth I've amassed are the youth who grew up with my writing, and I just have one wish - may I persist the remaining few years without a single stain on my character.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Naskaradeniz, Sonnet 2412
(The Planet Dervish)

Where your hope ends,
there my stubbornness begins.
Where gods stay cripple,
there my duty begins.

Where law fails order,
there my justice begins.
Where state fails society,
there my civilizing begins.

Where schools fail truth,
there my curiosity begins.
Where science fails empathy,
there my intervention convenes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“The Naskar Terrain (Sonnet 2962)

If you refuse to call me a scientist,
because I place science at the feet
of the humans, not above their head -

if you refuse to call me a philosopher,
because I count philosophy second to life,
not the center of life -

if you refuse to call me a theologian,
because I place divinity inside the humans,
not outside and above them -

if you refuse to call me a poet because
I refuse to obey white man's fancy full-stomach
rhyme and meter, then be it, my child -

the vast terrains of the himalayas are
carpeted with corpses that failed to make it,
yet the Himalayas stand, indifferent
and undented by the yelp reviews of apes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth