As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.

Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.

The finger that turns the dial rules the air.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.

It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.