Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.