We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves.
We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is aparticipatory universe.
I like to say, when asked why I pursue science, that it is to satisfy my curiosity, that I am by nature a searcher trying to understand. If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.
One can only learn by teaching.
Surely where there's smoke there's fire? No, where there's so much smoke there's smoke.
It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot.
The laws of physics that we regard as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything but.
The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
[Answering whether there was life in other worlds, he said there probably was. ] After all, there's plenty of unearthly looking things moving around in my refrigerator, so there's always a chance of life springing up almost anywhere.
There will come a day when the phone doesn't ring as much as it used to.
The one aim of [my] yoga is an inner self-development by which each one who follows it can in time discover the One Self in all and evolve a higher consciousness than the mental, a spiritual and supramental consciousness which will transform and divinize human nature.