Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.

Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.

What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.

Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we can reverse the process and descend from the general to the particular, ascending and descending like angels on Jacob's ladder.

The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.