Occupation: Writer Birth: September 6, 1928 Death: April 24, 2017
Science probes; it does not prove. Imagine Newton's reaction to an objector of his law of gravity who argued that he could not establish a universal ….
The pencil is mightier than the pen..
My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind..
The real University... has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries, and receives no material dues... The real University is a sta….
The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the to….
A culture that supports the dominance of social values over biological values is an absolutely superior culture to one that does not, and a culture t….
To an experienced Zen Buddhist, asking if one believes in Zen or one believes in the Buddha, sounds a little ludicrous, like asking if one believes i….
When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things..
In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more….
We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives..
It's paradoxical that where people are the most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities in the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest... Th….
The way to solve the conflict between human values and technology needs is not to run away from technology. That's impossible. The way to resolve the….
Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster..
The buddah can reside in the gears of a motorcycle as easily as in a flower on a mountaintop. To believe otherwise is to demean the buddah; which is ….
It's better not to see than to see wrongly..
Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to….
Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality..
No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow..
Great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. The….
Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not..
I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life..