Sajith Kumar

“Alexander himself, in the hour of his triumph,
was conquered by the soul of the East; he married
(among several ladies) the daughter of Darius; he adopted the Persian diadem and robe of state; he introduced into Europe the Oriental notion of the divine right of kings; and at last he astonished a sceptic Greece by announcing, in magnificent
Eastern style, that he was a god. Greece laughed; and
Alexander drank himself to death.”
― Will Durant, The story of philosophy [Hardcover]

“There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“I thought maybe we’d get all these engineers together and sit around a table. […] I felt that engineers were different from other people, that they were interested in combating nature, that they were above politics […] But I was naive”
― Eugene Black

“Of all known liquids water is probably the most studied and least understood”
― Felix Franks