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Joseph Needham
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“For three thousand years a dialogue has been going on between the two ends of the Old World. Greatly have they influenced each other, and very different are the cultures they have produced. We have now good reason to think that the problems of the world will never be solved so long as they are considered only from a European point of view. It is necessary to see Europe from the outside, to see European history, and European failure no less than European achievement, through the eyes of that larger part of humanity, the peoples of Asia (and indeed also of Africa).”
Joseph Needham (1900–1995) first seen 1492 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: -Joseph Needham: 1969 quoted in Decolonizing History: Technology and Culture in India, China and the West 1492 to the Present Day. Claude Alphonso Alvares, 1991
“We know that the trigonometric sine is not mentioned by Greek mathematicians and astronomers, that it was used in India from the Gupta period onwards (third century).... The only conclusion possible is that the use of sines is an Indian development and not a Greek one. But Tannery, persuaded that the Indians could not have made any mathematical inventions, preferred to assume that the sine was a Greek idea not adopted by Hipparchus, who gave only a cable of chords. For Tannery, the fact that the Indians knew of sines was sufficient proof that they must have heard about them from the Greeks.”
Joseph Needham (1900–1995) first seen 500 BC wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Joseph Needham quoted in R.C. Majumdar, ‘Nationalist Historians’, in Philips, ed., Historians of India, Pakistan and Ceylon. quoted from E. Sreedharan - A Textbook of Historiography, 500 B.C. to A.D. 2000.
“To seek the ultimate origin or predisposition of the Indian conviction in the profoundly Hindu world view of endless cyclical change, kalpa and mahakalpas succeeding one another in self-sufficient and unwearying round. For Hindus as well as Taoists, the universe itself was a perpetual motion machine.”
Joseph Needham (1900–1995) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lannoy, Richard. Tfre speaking tree: a study of Indian culture alld society London, New York, Oxford University Press, 1971. p.292As Quoted and attributed in Londhe, S. (2008). /A_Tribute_to_Hinduism.html?id=G3AMAQAAMAA…
“It is good to remember, therefore, that our own pious founders were not the only men, and that Christendom was not the only culture, to set on foot great and noble institutions of learning where successive generations of students assembled to get the benefits of education and research. When the men of Alexander the Great came to Taxila in India in the fourth century BC they found a university the like of which had not then been seen in Greece ... and was still existing when the Chinese pilgrim Fa-Hsien went there about AD 400.”
Joseph Needham (1900–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Agarwal, D P Did You know? infmityfoundation.com http:// www.infinityfoundation.comlmandala/t_dy/t_dLQ12.htrn 328As Quoted and attributed in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning contine…
“Indian culture in all probability excelled in systematic thought about Nature (as for example in the Sarokhya atomic theories of Kshana, bhutadim paramanu, etc.), including also biological speculations ... When the balance comes to be made up, it will be found I believe, that Indian scientific history holds as many brilliant surprises ...”
Joseph Needham (1900–1995) first seen 1500 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alvares, Claude Alphonso Homo faber: technology and culture III IndIG, China, and the Westfi'om 1500 to the present day p. 69 - 70 As Quoted and attributed in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdo…
“Joseph Needham, has stated, "Future research on the history of science and technology in Asia will in fact reveal that the achievements of these peoples contribute far more in all pre-Renaissance periods to the development of world science than has yet been realized.”
Joseph Needham (1900–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“European and America must stand ready not only to share with all Asians and Africans those treasures of understanding and use of Nature which modern science and technology brought forth, but also to learn from them many things concerning individual life and society which they are more than competent to teach. If this is not done, the achievements of Europe (and America) will in any case become the common property of mankind, but our civilization will go down in history as distorted and evil, unwilling to practice what it preached, and worthy of the condemnation of ten thousand generations.”
Joseph Needham (1900–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak, and David Frawley. - In search of the cradle of civilization _ new light on ancient India-Quest Books (2011)
“We cannot forejudge what the future developments of the history of science will bring forth, but if India was probably less original than China in the engineering and physico-chemical sciences, Indian culture in all probability excelled in systematic thought about Nature (as for example in the Samkhya atomic theories of Kshana, bhutadi, paramanu, etc.), including also biological speculations .... When the balance comes to be made up, it will be found I believe, that Indian scientific history holds as many brilliant surprises as those which have emerged from the recent study of China -whether in mathematics, chemistry, or biology, and especially the theories which were framed about them.”
Joseph Needham (1900–1995) first seen 1492 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Joseph Needham: 1963 quoted in Decolonizing History: Technology and Culture in India, China and the West 1492 to the Present Day. Claude Alphonso Alvares, 1991