With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful.

You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day; I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep.

Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.

In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth that all science, as it grows towards perfection, becomes mathematical in its ideas.

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

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

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