We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.

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.

Religion as a philosophy is superior to religion as a practice.

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

Health care in America must be a right, not a privilege.

Children who die young are some of our greatest teachers. We are allowed to die when we have taught what we came to teach and when we have learned what we came to learn.

You are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism.

Build a rocket ship and leave the earth!

A brilliant idea doesn't guarantee a successful invention. Real magic comes from a brilliant idea combined with willpower, tenacity, and a willingness to make mistakes.

I guess there was a war going on somewhere in the world that night but it wasn't one that could touch us.

Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.

To believe in God starts with a conclusion about Him, develops into confidence in Him, and then matures into a conversation with Him.