Subhash Kak Professions : Computer ScientistBorn : March 26, 1947 Browse All Authors Top 11 quotes by Subhash Kak History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination. Subhash Kak glueevidenceimagination Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it. Subhash Kak betrayalcareersself Europe has resurrected its pagan gods. Subhash Kak pagan-godspaganeurope If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding. Subhash Kak understandinglossheart Men and women in their mutual attraction are driven to the very emptiness they are trying to avoid. Subhash Kak mutual-attractiontryingmen When the mind grasps the universe, the senses retreat. Subhash Kak retreatsensesmind The body is like the wife to the spirit. The two must cohabit to create new forms, but their pleasures rarely coincide. Subhash Kak wifebodytwo Gods have many faces. Subhash Kak many-facesfaces Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth. Subhash Kak actinganimalmen People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good comes out of them only at the end of this life, in paradise. Subhash Kak embraceparadisepeople Interestingly, modern science has estimated that the age of the earth is about 4 billion years. Scholars feel it is uncanny that the Vedic Aryans could have conceived of such a vast span of time over 3,500 years ago that would be similar to the same figure estimated by science today. Subhash Kak agewould-beyears Similar Authors Bill Joy computer-scientist Butler Lampson computer-scientist Brian Reid computer-scientist Brian Kernighan computer-scientist Andrew S. Tanenbaum computer-scientist Andy Hertzfeld computer-scientistAll Authors
