The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance-these are what may make a vast, complex, ever growing, ever changing, ever more specialized and expert technological world, nevertheless a world of human community.

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

It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so.

We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.

The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.

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.

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