Communication will bring understanding and understanding will cause harmonious mutual relationships which can establish peace and stability.

In the Buddhist learning process, we say three stages. The first is hearing, the second is contemplation, and the third is meditation.

Training and education is one and the same: that is, to train the mind through a discipline in order to awake the inner intelligence of the individuals.

Every religion or every philosophy is an outcome of the human search for liberation.

The twentieth century may well find historical status as the epoch in which man began to study himself as a scientific phenomenon.

Although I liked especially physics and mathematics for which I had considerable talent, I decided to study medicine. This profession had for me a strong emotional appeal, which was reinforced by having an uncle who was an excellent surgeon.

Of course, the American education system is very inefficient in many ways compared to other countries in Europe or Japan, but it works in such a way that at least the few people who are going onto unusual careers and science can manage to get into that, even though they go through an earlier stage that doesn't give them much.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.