It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

Genius sees the answer before the question.

There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.

The people of this world must unite or they will perish.

When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of any possibility of dealing with the EVIL of others.

Chew off a little every day, because it’s hard to swallow a whole pie at once.

Everybody counts—the Happy ones Count their Blessings and the sad ones Count their Troubles.

To become distinguished in your industry, you have to constantly manage, master and maximise your time.

Doubt and faith are parts of human experience, whether one views them as right or wrong. Also doubt and faith are instrumental to grasping truth in some very obvious senses.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance.

I'm terrified of motorcycles. I've been on one a couple of times. I did not like it.

Conscience is a God to all mortals.

Good press, bad press, whatever, only means a lot to me if it's writ by somebody I respect, by somebody I like.