Comments from some heavy-hitters:
Albert
Einstein
"We
owe a lot to Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific
discovery could have been made."
Mark
Twain
"India is the cradle of the human race, the
birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, grandmother of legend, and great
grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history
of man are treasured up in India only."
Nikita
Khrushchev
"You Indians are remarkable people. How did you manage to liquidate the princely
states without liquidating the princese!" - commenting on the accessing of 542
princely states into the Indian union.
French
scholar Romain Rolland
"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."
Hu Shih (former ambassador of China to the USA)
India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to
send a single soldier across her border.
Max Mueller (German Indologist)
"If I were to look over the whole world to find out the country most richly
endowed with all the wealth, power and beauty that nature can bestow, in some parts a very
paradise on earth, it should point to India."
Will
Durant
"India was the mother 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 Buddha, of the ideals
embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and
democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all."
Colonel
James Todd
"Where can we look for sages like those whose
systems of philosophy were prototypes of those of Greece: to whose works Plato,
Thales & Pythagorus were disciples? Where do I find astronomers whose knowledge
of planetary systems yet excites wonder in Europe as well as the architects and sculptors
whose works claim our admiration, and the musicians who could make the mind oscillate from
joy to sorrow, from tears to smile with the change of modes and varied intonation?"
Sylvia
Levi
"She [India] has left indelible
imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries.
She has the right to reclaim ... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and
symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions
of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and
her civilization."
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