Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.

Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.

The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.

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

The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.

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.

If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing.