Abdus Salam's Quotes

Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

I'm also fascinated by the interplay between personal history and the larger forces that form the context for our lives.

I've always been obsessed about how people choose - or are destined - for the paths they take.

The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write.

My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with my sister in rural Ohio in the 1950s, where my dad became the town doctor and I was born.

Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.

You wanna get diarrhoea? Eat industrial food.

Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices.

The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.

Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.

I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.

I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical.

Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.

Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation.

My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control.

Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food.

'Organic' doesn't mean what people think it means.

The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.