Research is appreciation.

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Somebody is always reflectively monkeying with some of the parts of an infinite universe - monkeying as distinct from aping.

The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.

A persistent and age-old instinct makes us want to wander Into regions yet untrod And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do something, when all they need is one reason why they can.

Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down—or up, I suppose—replacing other people in the process.

You change the future by taking control of the present. Know how to use your minutes and hours.

A consultant: someone brought in to build a one-handled wheelbarrow.

The beauty of progress is that it never fails to add a new positive meaning to one's life.

The other day in prayer I said to God, "Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?".

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

I believe in hard work. It keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.

Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own alienation.

Christ's lordship is a blessed hope for some & a terrifying nightmare for others. Regardless of our response, it is an unalterable reality.

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.