We can't allow science to undo its own good work.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Perhaps it is a good thing that we don't live long enough to realize how redundant things seem :)

We must not lose our trust in the power of truth. Everything is always changing in the world.

I speak Hindi fluently because my mother speaks only in Hindi and Urdu.

My father - I once asked him what was his greatest achievement. He said his greatest achievement was that he fought in five wars in the infantry, always on the front line, and never hurt anybody.

Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?

Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.

This is not a brook [Bach means "brook" in German], it's an ocean.

But so many books thou readest, But so many schemes thou breedest, But so many wishes feedest, That thy poor head almost turns.

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness.

I never had to worry about divestment because I never invested.