Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.

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.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.

Slowly but surely, the older I get, the fatter I get. It just goes.

Common decency demands that [NCAA athletes] should be paid, but the only way it will happen is the same way workers got paid throughout American history, through a strong union.

Let one thousand flowers bloom.

The downside to celebrity is when you make it a 24 hour thing. I think celebrity is about turning it on and turning it off.

This is truth: When you sacrifice your life, you must make fullest use of your weaponry. It is false not to do so, and to die with a weapon as yet undrawn.

The power of narrative sort of defines something forever and ever.

Generally, or at least very often, people with a deep interest in animals are the best people around.