This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

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

... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.

The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks

I love Humanity but I hate humans

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood.