In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our lives if need be, but surely by our lives, the opportunity for a man to learn anything

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

Genius sees the answer before the question.

There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.

The people of this world must unite or they will perish.

When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of any possibility of dealing with the EVIL of others.

...grief is as much about regret for what you've never had as sadness for what you've lost.

It was time to take action, to change her own story, to take life into her own hands.

The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion.

Such technological tools ... are helping us now in the hot war against terrorists who would bomb this theater if they had the capacity to do so.

On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.

The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.

Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.

I've had a very supportive mother my entire life, so I've had strong women around me.

Being a sociologist means never having to be bored

Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possible options.