Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.