The Mughal’s nature is such that they demand miracles, but if a miracle were to be performed by some upright follower of our religion, they would say that it had been brought about by magic and sorcery. They would strike him down with spears or would stone him to death.

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature—and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.

One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.