Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time.

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time.

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings.

To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know.

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives.