It is proper to the role of the scientist that he not merely find new truth and communicate it to his fellows, but that he teach, that he try to bring the most honest and intelligible account of new knowledge to all who will try to learn.

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.

To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.

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.

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

We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.

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