Famous Quotations About India

These are some of the Famous Quotations About India which are worth knowing. Let us find out what others have said about India. 

 -Albert Einstein, American scientist:

"We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made."

Lancelot Hogben:

"There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO." ('Mathematics for the Millions')

Keith Bellows, National Geographic Society.

"There are some parts of the world that, once visited, get into your heart and won't go. For me, India is such a place. When I first visited, I was stunned by the richness of the land, by its lush beauty and exotic architecture, by its ability to overload the senses with the pure, concentrated intensity of its colors, smells, tastes, and sounds... I had been seeing the world in black & white and, when brought face-to-face with India, experienced everything re-rendered in brilliant technicolor.

"Romain Rolland, French scholar :"

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India."

Mark Twain, American author:

"India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only."

Max Muller, German Scholar:

"There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and inspiring as the Upanishads." ('Sacred Books of the East')

P. Johnstone:

"Gravitation was known to the Hindus (Indians) before the birth of Newton. The system of blood circulation was discovered by them centuries before Harvey was heard of."

Sir John Woodroffe: 

"An examination of Indian Vedic doctrines shows that it is in tune with the most advanced scientific and philosophical thought of the West."

Sir W. Hunter, British Surgeon:

"The surgery of the ancient Indian physicians was bold and skillful. A special branch of surgery was dedicated to rhinoplasty or operations for improving deformed ears, noses and forming new ones, which European surgeons have now borrowed."

Adolf Seilachar & P.K. Bose, scientists:

"One Billion-Year-Old fossil prove life began in India: AFP Washington reports in Science Magazine that German Scientist Adolf Seilachar and Indian Scientist P.K. Bose have unearthed fossil in Churhat a town in Madhya Pradesh, India which is 1.1 billion years old and has rolled back the evolutionary clock by more than 500 million years."

Will Durant, American historian:

"India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all".

Sir William Jones, British Orientalist: 

"The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either."

Emmelin Plunret 

"They were very advanced Hindu astronomers in 6000 BC. Vedas contain an account of the dimension of Earth, Sun, Moon, Planets and Galaxies." ('Calendars and Constellations')

Mark Twain

"India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire."

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