People
Notable people associated with IUCAA:
- Jayant Narlikar, founding director
- Naresh Dadhich, physicist, Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences
- Thanu Padmanabhan, Padma Shri award winning astrophysicist
Read more about this topic: Inter-University Centre For Astronomy And Astrophysics
Famous quotes containing the word people:
“Just as rotten wood cannot be used for pillars, so base people cannot become masters.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Plato—who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed only to “real” people and everyday events—knew what intellectual experience made for true humanity. He suggested that the future citizens of his ideal republic begin their literary education with the telling of myths, rather than with mere facts or so-called rational teachings.”
—Bruno Bettelheim (20th century)
“When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)