SCIENCE&HINDUISM (by few Quotes):- 1.Albert Einstein:We owe a lot to the Indians,who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made. 2.Carl Sagan: “The Hindu religion is the only one of the worlds great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense,indeed an infinite,number of death and rebirths.It is only religion in which time scales correspond,to those of modern scientific cosmology. “Shivas dance is the dance of subatomic matter. The Hindus, according to Monier-Williams, were Spinozists more than 2,000 years before the advent of Spinoza, and Darwinians many centuries before Darwin and Evolutionists many centuries before the doctrine of Evolution was accepted by scientists of the present age.” 3.Dr J. Robert Oppenheimer:Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries. The general notions about human understanding… which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar, unheard of or new.What we shall find [in modern physics] is an exemplification, an encouragement, and a refinement of old wisdom. 4.W. Heisenberg (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. 5.Sir W. Hunter (British Surgeon):The surgery of the ancient Indian physicians was bold and skilful. A special branch of surgery was dedicated to rhinoplasty or operations for improving deformed ears, noses and forming new ones, which European surgeons now borrowed. 6.Niels Bohr (physicist): “I go into the Upanishadas to ask questions.” 7.Emmeline M. Plunket:They were very advanced Hindu astronomers in 6000 BCE. Vedas contain an account of the dimension of Earth, Sun, Moon, Planets and Galaxies.(Calendars and Constellations) 8.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. 9.Will Durant: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. 10.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. 11.Dr. Scott Sandford (astronomer and NASA space scientist):-It looks like that the writers of Vedas and Puran came from the future to deliver knowledge. The works of the Ancient Arya Sages is mind blowing. There is no doubt that Purans and Vedas are word of God. 12.Wheeler Wilcox (American author and poet):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. 13.. Dick Teresi:Twenty-four centuries before Isaac Newton, the Hindu Rig-Veda asserted that gravitation held the universe together. The Sanskrit speaking Aryans subscribed to the idea of a spherical earth in an era when the Greeks believed in a flat one. The Indians of the fifth century A.D. calculated the age of the earth as 4.3 billion years; scientists in 19th century England were convinced it was 100 million years. 14.Sir John Woodroffe (British Orientalist):An examination of Indian Vedic doctrines shows that it is in tune with the most advanced scientific and philosophical thought of the West.......Ages before Lamarck and Darwin it was held in India that man has passed through 84 lakhs (8,400,000) of birth as plants, animals, as aninferior species of manand then as the ancestor of the developed type existing to-day. 15.Francois Voltaire (French writer, philosopher):-The Veda was the most precious gift for which the West had ever been indebted to the East. 16.Max Muller:There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and inspiring as the Upanishads.(Sacred Books of the East) 17.Schopenhauer (German philosopher):Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.
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