As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.

Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.

I did my masters in elementary particles. But the foundations of elementary particles is quantum theory and there were too many conceptual problems around quantum theory that I couldn't live with. So I decided I was going to work on the foundations of quantum theory. That's what I did my Ph.D on.

In civilizational issues you don't look at the tiny details as the debate. You have to look at the big picture!

The director of the institute where I was working apologized about these young, enthusiastic researchers when the World Bank visited because he was afraid the institute would lose the World Bank consultancies.I went back home and started the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology—an extremely elaborate name for the tiny institute that I started in my mother’s cow shed. My parents handed over family resources and said, “Put them to public purpose.” That’s how I survived.

Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.

In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.