Umesh Deshpande

“No one can be certain of Oppenheimer’s reaction had he learned that on the eve of the Hiroshima bombing, the president knew the Japanese were “looking for peace,” and that the military use of atomic bombs on cities was an option rather than a necessity for ending the war in August. But we do know that after the war he came to believe that he had been misled, and that this knowledge served as a constant reminder that it was henceforth his obligation to be skeptical of what he was told by government officials.”
― Kai Bird, American Prometheus: THE INSPIRATION FOR 'OPPENHEIMER', WINNER OF 7 OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, BEST DIRECTOR AND BEST ACTOR

“How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a chest, and lie hidden in the cobwebs and dust, waiting to be cleaned out or rediscovered?”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide

“भारतीय गावाकडील लोक आपल्यासारखा बुद्धीचा वापर करत नाहीत. त्यांची भिस्त अंतर्ज्ञानावर असते आणि त्यांची ती क्षमता जगातील इतर कोणापेक्षाही अधिक विकसित झालेली आहे. माझ्या मते अंत:प्रेरणा ही एक शक्तिशाली गोष्ट आहे. अगदी बुद्धीपेक्षाही जास्त शक्तिशाली! त्याचा माझ्या कामावर विलक्षण परिणाम झाला.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs : Exclusive Biography

“We can look at the whole concept of God and spirituality from a vantage point built on logic and physics. Under such an intensive scientific scrutiny, religion always fails. Our knowledge of quantum cosmology is now sufficiently advanced to eliminate the notion of God altogether. The universe is an entirely natural phenomenon, if extraordinarily complex. It was not created by an external act of will.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Reality Dysfunction