To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.

The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.

Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.

The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.

Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.

Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.

What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.