„The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.“

Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture (1709)

Pitkin sneered. “Junkie!”
Schwartz matched him sneer for sneer. “Economist!”
Short fiction, Schwartz Between the Galaxies (1974)

Quelle: The Prosperous Heart

Quelle: Pearls of Wisdom

The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)

Interview in The Hindu (2013)
Kontext: String theory work done in India is pretty good. … There’s no other country with a GDP per capita comparable to India’s whose string theoretic output is anywhere as good. In fact, the output is better than any country in the European Union, but at the same time not comparable to the EU’s as a whole. So you get an idea of the scale: reasonably good, not fantastic.
The striking weakness of research in India is that research happens by and large only in a few elite institutions. But in the last five years, it has been broadening out a bit. TIFR and the Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI) have good research groups; there are some reasonably good young groups in Indian Institute of Science (IIS), Bengaluru; Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai; some small groups in the Chennai Mathematical Institute, IIT-Madras, IIT-Bombay, IIT-Kanpur, all growing in strength, The Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, has also made good hires in string theory.

Interview with Sir David Frost on the BBC, 1972.
Quote, Other

No. 162 (5 September 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)

Quoted in: A.L. Mackay Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (London 1994).

Short fiction, Schwartz Between the Galaxies (1974)

Quelle: Lincoln's Dreams (1987), Chapter 4 (pp. 57-58)

Brahminism. (2015) Gyan Publishing House

Pearls of Wisdom

The Zombie Survival Guide
Kontext: Joy, sadness, confidence, anxiety, love, hatred, fear—all of these feelings and thousands more that make up the human “heart” are as useless to the living dead as the organ of the same name. Who knows if this is humanity’s greatest weakness or strength? The debate continues, and probably will forever.

Quoted in a Forbes magazine interview in 1993 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/22/us/luis-a-ferre-dies-at-99-pushed-puerto-rican-statehood.html, on his acquisition of art pieces to create the Ponce Museum of Art, now the largest art museum in the Caribbean, and considered one of the best in the Americas.

Unmasking the False Religion of Evolution (1996)

From Gibbs's letter accepting the Rumford Medal (1881). Quoted in A. L. Mackay, Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (London, 1994).

Address on the Jubilee of Scientists, 25 May 2000
Quelle: Libreria Editrice Vaticana http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/2000/apr-jun/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_20000525_jubilee-science_en.html