Discovery Quote by Albert Einstein

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count

— Albert Einstein

Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he…

— Bertrand Russell

Very few societies on Earth developed science as we know it today. On the other hand, the number is not zero - the Greeks,…

— Seth Shostak

You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered.

— Ivan van Sertima

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

— Chauncey Wright

We made more than just scientific discoveries... we rediscovered how much people love exploration.

— Alan Stern

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

— Roland Joffe

The seers of ancient India had, in their experiments and efforts at spiritual training and the conquest of the body, perfected a discovery which…

— Sri Aurobindo

Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications of scientific…

— I. Bernard Cohen

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists…

— James Lovelock

We cannot take credit for our record avancement in certain scientific fields alone. We have been helped, and we have been helped by the…

— Hermann Oberth

As soon as you take out a pencil and paper with the Indians, you're one thing to them - an anthropologist - and what…

— Ruth Beebe Hill