Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.

The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.

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

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery of paradox, and is then concerned with the correction of preconception. It moves then to use these corrections for the designing of further observation and for more refined experiment. And as it moves along this course the nature of the evidence and experience that nourish it becomes more and more unfamiliar; it is not just the language that is strange [to common culture].

There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.

Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage.