My interest is that there is a disconnect between the science and the size of the threat that people mention about nature, the planet and the climate, and the emotion that this triggers. So we are supposed to be extremely frightened people, but despite that we appear to sleep pretty well.

I have sought to offer humanists a detailed analysis of a technology sufficiently magnificent and spiritual to convince them that the machines by which they are surrounded are cultural artifacts worthy of their attention and respect.

Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.

Technology is society made durable.

Be not the one who debunks but the one who assembles, not the one who lifts the rugs from under the feet of the naive believers but the one who offers arenas in which to gather.

India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed.

The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.