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.

The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.

...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.

The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning.

The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical.

The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.