“Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.”

We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.

It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.

The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.

It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.

There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.

The pioneer scientist must have “a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination.”

Science advances funeral by funeral.

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.

The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.

Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.

What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.

Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.

There is so much to discover in a world full of colors. Paint your future with the brightest shades. 

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness.

Knowing many things doesn’t teach insight.

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be.

I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.

The more you discover, the more you feel, until it becomes a part of you.