If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for us, let it be the measure of our virtue that we know this and seek no comfort.

Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification.

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

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

Truth, not a pet, is man's best friend.

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

If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for us, let it be the measure of our virtue that we know this and seek no comfort.