It is not possible to be a scientist unless you believe that it is good to learn... that it is of the highest value to share your knowledge... with anyone who is interested... that the knowledge of the world, and the power which this gives, is a thing which is of intrinsic value to humanity

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics.

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and - to go a step further - our mathematicians do not know mathematics.