Occupation: Writer Birth: September 21, 1866 Death: August 13, 1946
Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand..
Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality..
If the world does not please you, you can change it..
Alexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances outside of themselves ….
It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils….
I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world.
Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in man that urges him for ever to depart f….
The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive..
Science is a match that man has just got alight. He thought he was in a room - in moments of devotion, a temple - and that his light would be reflect….
This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur..
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race..
The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature..
Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life..
If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it..
After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables ….
What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?.
Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry..
We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!.
The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. Thes….
By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my lif….
Advertising is legalized lying..