“I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating, nor was it wholly nonsense for Kepler to exult that he was thinking God’s thoughts after him.”

I would not say that I was, these days, a ‘student’ of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.

Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince.

Whether you choose a vacation or a spouse, a party or a candidate, a cause to contribute to or a creed to live by – think!

There is no better high than discovery.

There is a great difference between discoveries and inventions. With discoveries, one can always be skeptical, and many surprises can take place. In the case of inventions, surprises can really only occur for people who have not had anything to do with it.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.

Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries

With so many scientific achievements we know so little of where we came from and where we are going. But we know even less of the most important discovery of all.

There are many, many books I’ve read and I think this is quite naïve actually because we all just try to uncover something.

But the universe at large is full of questions that we still don’t know anything about and there will be always young people brilliant who are going to make new discoveries.

What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.