It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book

Of what significance is one's existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life? The bitter and the sweet come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and love for it.

It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which gives us the key to the understanding of nature ... In a certain sense, therefore, I hold it true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

The only rational way of educating is to be an example. If one can't help it, a warning example.

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous