Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

A new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. Every serious and reflective person realizes, I think, that the religious element in his nature must be recognized and cultivated if all the powers of the human soul are to act together in perfect balance and harmony. And indeed it was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.