German Indologists

"[…] whatever is closely connected with the ancient Indian religion must be considered as having sprung up among the Indian themselves, unless positive evidence of the strongest kind point to a contrary conclusion."

"I was amazed at how this outstanding connoisseur of Indian knowledge in the field of exact sciences showed himself to be so captive to Cantor’s authority."

"I cannot help thinking that it shows battle weariness rather than a considered opinion."

"[…] nor did he [Thibaut] formulate the obvious conclusion, namely, that the Greeks were not the inventors of plane geometry, rather it was the Indians. At least this was the message that the Greek scholars saw in Thibaut’s paper. And they didn’t like it... If the Indians invented plane geometry, what was to become of Greek ‘genius’ or of the Greek ‘miracle’?"