It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

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

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.