Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

All history teaches us that these questions that we think the pressing ones will be transmuted before they are answered, that they will be replaced by others, and that the very process of discovery will shatter the concepts that we today use to describe our puzzlement.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

When all thermonuclear sources of energy are exhausted a sufficiently heavy star will collapse. Unless fission due to rotation, the radiation of mass, or the blowing off of mass by radiation, reduce the star's mass to the order of that of the sun, this contraction will continue indefinitely.