“Getting into the depth of [the present] human mind, you always get the feeling of insecurity, the danger of violence is there; violence in the name of declared war, violence in the name of undeclared war.”

“People have not realised that the brain is after all a physical thing. Yet they treat the brain as the mind, as consciousness. They do not realise its (brain’s) limitations, its shortcomings, its conditioning. With this conditioned mind they have tried to search for the unlimited. But this has been an external inquiry, not an internal one. People take for granted that their consciousness, and the instrument with which they see, that is the eye, are perfectly all right. But this is only a partial reality, not the whole of it. It is a big illusion.”

“Most scientists on conducting research do not think that what emerges from this inquiry is common, public knowledge. Instead they say, if I discover this, it is my property. This talk about intellectual property doesn’t sit well with our culture. If we find something, we share that with everyone. And knowledge is universal. This effort to individualise knowledge indicates that the research is selfish.”

“People say that science is neutral and that it depends on how you use it. But on one side you have unlimited development of technology, on the other you have an exploitation-free society. These two concepts do not go together.”