"A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity."
"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."
"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."
"I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking"
"It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science."
"If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism."