Subhash Kak Quotes

Subhash Kak is an Indian American computer scientist. He is Regents Professor and a previous Head of Computer Science Department at Oklahoma State University–Stillwater who has made contributions to cryptography, artificial neural networks, and quantum information.

Kak is also notable for his Indological publications on the history of science, the philosophy of science, ancient astronomy, and the history of mathematics. Alan Sokal labeled Kak "one of the leading intellectual luminaries of the Hindu-nationalist diaspora."

His brother is the computer scientist Avinash Kak.

✵ 26. March 1947
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Famous Subhash Kak Quotes

“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

"The honey bee dance language controversy," The Mankind Quarterly, 1991, 357-365.
Miscellaneous

“What is the chance that one can roll up the sky like a hide?”

Subhash Kak

The Secrets of Ishbar (1996)

“Men and women in their mutual attraction are driven to the very emptiness they are trying to avoid.”

Subhash Kak

Recursionism and Reality, 2002.
Miscellaneous

Subhash Kak Quotes

“Modern life alienates us from Nature, even our own.”

Subhash Kak

The Wishing Tree (2015)

“Beauty takes us to a space that is ineffable, a place of secrets.”

Subhash Kak

Interview The Hindu, 2014
Miscellaneous

“When the mind grasps the universe, the senses retreat.”

Subhash Kak

The Prajna Sutra (2007)

“I have so much of desire that desire itself is my fulfillment.”

Subhash Kak

The Secrets of Ishbar (1996)

“If social media can bring the sense of freedom, it can also bind people into delusional cults.”

Subhash Kak

The Circle of Memory, An Autobiography (2016)

“History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.”

Subhash Kak

The Wishing Tree (2015)

“The clash of civilizations is nothing but a clash of different myths.”

Subhash Kak

The Loom of Time (2016)

“A culture is like a lens through which people construct their world.”

Subhash Kak

The Circle of Memory, An Autobiography (2016)

“Europe has resurrected its pagan gods.”

Subhash Kak

The Loom of Time (2016)

“There is nothing as uplifting and inspiring as the Upanishads.”

Subhash Kak

The Circle of Memory, An Autobiography (2016)

“The world is a game of information and paradox.”

Subhash Kak

The Secrets of Ishbar (1996)

“The best paradise is the paradise we are exiled from.”

Subhash Kak

The Secrets of Ishbar (1996)

“The dance of the peacock attracts not only the peahen but also the human.”

Subhash Kak

The Loom of Time (2016)

“Gods have many faces.”

Subhash Kak

The Prajna Sutra (2007)

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