"A Generalization of Weyl's Theory of the Electromagnetic and Gravitational Fields" in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A99 (1921), p. 108
"Quotes", Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957), Polemical Introduction
“When you publish a book, it’s the world’s book. The world edits it.”
"A Visit with Philip Roth," interview with James Atlas, The New York Times Book Review (2 September 1979), p. BR1
Source: Psyche and Matter (1992), p. 208
“You can’t study human nature in books. Books is a hindrance more than anything else. p. 25”
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 6, To Hold Your District: Study Human Nature and Act Accordin’
Science and the Unseen World (1929)
Context: It remains a real world if there is a background to the symbols—an unknown quantity which the mathematical symbol x stands for. We think we are not wholly cut off from this background. It is to this background that our own personality and consciousness belong, and those spiritual aspects of our nature not to be described by any symbolism... to which mathematical physics has hitherto restricted itself.<!--III, p.37-38
Source: 1990s and beyond, A McLuhan Sourcebook (1995), p. 276
The Impartial Spectator: Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy (2007), Ch. 1: Two Versions
“There was an Indian edition of most of my books, but it didn't make much of a splash.”
On the impact of her books in India. But her publication of The Hindus: An Alternative History, a sweeping history of Hinduism from its origins in 2500 B.C. to the present, though a success, it has been controversial (this aspect has been covered in another quote above).
Q&A with Wendy Doniger, the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor and author of The Hindus
