The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.

Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.

It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.

A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.

Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.

The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India; and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before.

"One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this notion of unimportant change.