The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.

Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.

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

We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.

Maybe General Groves was right. Maybe we should just banish thinking forever.

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

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.