THE VIEW OF GREAT SCIENTISTS AND PHILOSOPHERS OF WESTERN WORLD ON SANATHANA DHARMA / HINDUISM

Julius Robert Oppenheimer Bhagavad-Gita Quote

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We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. I suppose we all thought that one way or another."

Western Scientists and Philosophers view on Sanathana Dharma

Albert Einstein

Great Scientist

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous. I have made the Bhagavad-Gita as the main source of my inspiration and guide for the purpose of scientific investigations and formation of the theories. We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

Carl Sagan

American Modern Astrophysicist

Vedic Cosmology is the only one in which the time scales correspond to those of modern scientific cosmology. The Hinduism is the only one of the world’s greatest faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond to those of modern scientific cosmology.

Julius Robert Oppenheimer

Atomic Scientist

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries

Alfred North Whitehead

British Philosopher, Mathematician

The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi (intellect) of the Rishis in ancient India; and science in its most advanced stage now, is closer to Vedanta than ever before.

Werner Heisenberg

Physicist, Nobel Prize Winner

After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.

Hans Peter Durr

German Physicist

Whenever I give a lecture on Quantum Physics, I feel as if I am talking on Vedanta.

Charles H. Townes

American Nobel Prize winner

Indian students should value their religious culture and of course, the classical Indian culture bears importantly on the meaning of life and values. I would not separate the two. To separate Science and Indian culture world be harmful. I don’t think it is practical to keep scientific and spiritual culture separate.

Hermann Karl Hesse

German Poet, Novelist and Painter

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

Henry David Thoreau

American Philosopher

One sentence of the Gita, is worth the State of Massachusetts many times over. In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmological philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita in comparison with which our modern world & its literature seem puny & trivial.

Mark Twain

American Dramatist

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American Philosopher

I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad-Gita. It was the first of books: it was as if 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 same questions which exercise us. The East is grand and makes Europe appear the land of trifles… all is soul and the soul is Vishnu… cheerful and noble is the genius of this cosmology. Nature makes a Hindu of me presently.

Warren Hastings

British Governor General of India

I hesitate not to pronounce the Gita a performance of great originality, of sublimity of conception, reasoning and diction almost unequalled; and a single exception, amongst all the known religions of mankind.

Aldous Huxley

English writer, Novelist & Philosopher

The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject no only to India but to all of humanity.

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, 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.

Albert Schweitzer

French – German Philosopher

The Bhagavad-Gita has profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.

Carl Jung

Swiss Psychiatrist

The idea that man is like unto an inverted tree seems to have been current in bygone ages. The link with Vedic conceptions is provided by Plato in which he states. “Behold we are not an earthly but a heavenly plant”. This correlation can be discerned by what Lord Krishna expresses in chapter 15 of Bhagavad-Gita.

Francois Voltaire

French Writer

The Vedas was the most precious gift for which the West had ever been indebted to the East. I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc.

Erwin Schrodinger

Nobel Prize-Winning Austrian physicist

In all world there is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the temporal plurality of individuals, but it is a false construction… The only solution to this conflict in so far as any is available to us at all lies in the ancient wisdom of the Upanishads.

Romain Rolland

French Dramatist and Scholar

If there is one place on the face of the 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.

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