Ankit Singh

“the ray of light has to know where it will ultimately end up before it can choose the direction to begin moving in.”
― Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

“From whatever angle we approach our eternal political problem we monotonously reach the same conclusion: that the community should determine the ends to be pursued, but that only experts should select and apply the means; that choice should be democratically spread, but that office should be rigidly reserved for the equipped and winnowed best.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy

“When science has sufficiently ferreted out the forms of things, the world will be merely the raw material of whatever utopia man may decide to make.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy

“Here indeed was the great defect of the Greek mind: it was not disciplined; it lacked limiting and steadying traditions; it moved freely in an uncharted field, and ran too readily to theories and conclusions. So Greek philosophy leaped on to heights unreached again, while Greek science limped behind. Our modern danger is precisely opposite; inductive data fall upon us from all sides like the lava of Vesuvius; we suffocate with uncoördinated facts; our minds are overwhelmed with science breeding and multiplying into specialistic chaos for want of synthetic thought and a unifying philosophy. We are all mere fragments of what a man might be.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy