The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms

You who are on the inside, don't condemn my lack of faith too quickly; you who are on the outside, don't be too quick to mock my overcredulity; you who are indifferent, don't be too quick to wax ironic about my perpetual hesitations.

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

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.

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

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

We would be better off thinking of nature as a tiger than as a docile and compliant automaton that can never threaten our survival.