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.

The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth

The SECRET to financial security is not to have more money, but having MORE CONTROL over the money we presently have.

The desire to be self-supporting and financially independent is a divine desire

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

There's definitely a magical quality to writing that can't be explained. I can write something I love in two days, or I can work on a story every day for months and it never comes together.

I believe in analysis and not forecasting.

You are all so lucky to be living here. If I live in Manila I would definitely live in Azure.

Women are not the problem they're the solution

The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.