Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Quotes

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.

The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.

Beauty is that to what the human mind responds at its deepest and most profound.

In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a “discovery” of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

God is Man’s greatest invention

Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.