It is very important to note that some 2,500 years ago at the least Pythagoras went from Samos to the Ganges to learn geometry...But he would certainly not have undertaken such a strange journey had the reputation of the Brahmins science not been long established in Europe... - Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire (1694-1774) Frances greatest writer and philosopher. Nearly all the philosophical and mathematical doctrines attributed to Pythagoras are derived from India. - Leopold von Schroeder (1851-1920) German Indologist. In 1884, Schroeder published Pythagoras and the Indians We find among the Indians the vestiges of the most remote antiquity....We know that all peoples came there to draw the elements of their knowledge ... India, in her splendor, gave religions and laws to all the other peoples; Egypt and Greece owed to her both their fables and their wisdom. Ancient India gave to the world its religions and philosophies: Egypt and Greece owe India their wisdom and it is known that Pythagoras went to India to study under Brahmins, who were the most enlightened of human beings. - Pierre Sonnerat (1748 - 1814) a French naturalist, and author Sir William Temple, (1628-1699) English statesman and diplomat, in his Essay upon the Ancient and Modern Learning (1690) he wrote: From these famous Indians, it seems most probable that Pythagoras learned, and transported into Greece and Italy, the greatest part of his natural and moral philosophy, rather than from the Egyptians...Nor does it seem unlikely that the Egyptians themselves might have drawn much of their learning from the Indians…long before Lycurgus, who likewise traveled to India, brought from thence also the chief principles of his laws. Prof. H. G. Rawlinson 19th Century, British historian and author, writes: It is more likely that Pythagoras was influenced by India than by Egypt. Almost all the theories, religions, philosophical and mathematical taught by the Pythagoreans, were known in India in the sixth century B.C., and the Pythagoreans, like the Jains and the Buddhists, refrained from the destruction of life and eating meat and regarded certain vegetables such as beans as taboo It seems that the so-called Pythagorean theorem of the quadrature of the hypotenuse was already known to the Indians in the older Vedic times, and thus before Pythagoras.”meandmybrags.blogspot.in/2014/11/collection-of-quotes-on-india.html
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