WHAT WORLD THINKS ABOUT INDIA!!! 

# Albert Einstein (American scientist 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955): "We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made."



# Hu Shih ( 17 December 1891 – 24 February 1962 Chinese philosopher, essayist and diplomat former Ambassador of China to USA): "India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border."


# W. Heisenberg (5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976 German Physicist): "After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense."

# Max Mueller (December 6, 1823 – October 28, 1900, philologist and Orientalist German): “If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.” 


# Muhammad Ali Jinnah( 25 December 1876 – 11 September 1948 lawyer, politician, founder Pakistan in 1947): “India is not a nation, nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities.”


# 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."


# R.W. Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882, American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century): “In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.”


# Will Durant (November 5, 1885 – November 7 1981, American writer, historian and philosopher): "It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system."


# 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 (November 5, 1885 – November 7, 1981, American writer, historian, and philosopher): "India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings."


# William James, American Author: "From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology."


# 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')


# Sir William Jones (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794 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."


# P. Johnstone: "Gravitation was known to the Indians before the birth of Newton. The system of blood circulation was discovered by them centuries before Harvey was heard of."


# Mark Twain (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910, American author and humorist): "India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire."


# Wheeler Wilcox: "India - The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas."


# Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (15 October 1931, Indian scientist and administrator 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007): “Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?”


# M.K. GANDHI (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948, Freedom Fighter ):”God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west… keeping the world in chains. If our nation took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.”

# M.K. GANDHI (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948, Freedom Fighter ):”A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.”



# Swami Vivekanand (12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902, Indian Hindu monk and Philosopher): "Civilizations have arisen in other parts of the world. In ancient and modern times, wonderful ideas have been carried forward from one race to another...But mark you, my friends, it has been always with the blast of war trumpets and the march of embattled cohorts. Each idea had to be soaked in a deluge of blood..... Each word of power had to be followed by the groans of millions, by the wails of orphans, by the tears of widows. This, many other nations have taught; but India for thousands of years peacefully existed. Here activity prevailed when even Greece did not exist... Even earlier, when history has no record, and tradition dares not peer into the gloom of that intense past, even from until now, ideas after ideas have marched out from her, but every word has been spoken with a blessing behind it and peace before it. We, of all nations of the world, have never been a conquering race, and that blessing is on our head, and therefore we live....!"