archaeologist

🇺🇸Thomas Jefferson

Politics

"Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law [this quote is referring to English Common Law]."

🇫🇷André Malraux

Literature

1901–1976

"Our civilization … is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it."

🇬🇧Mortimer Wheeler

1890–1976

"The anthropologists who have recently described the skeletons from Harappa remark that there, as at Lothal, the population would appear, on the available evidence, to have remained more or less stable to the present day."

"More than one hundred years ago, William Bateson suggested that studying the regulation and timing of development was the key to understanding evolutionary change. He was right."

Margrethe II of Denmark

archaeologist

b. 1940

"God's help, the love of the people, the strength of Denmark."

🇺🇸Monte Melkonian

1957–1993

"In practice abandons the fate of our people to the caprice of the "Western" powers, particularly the U.S.A.—and these are states whose interests are opposed to ours."

🇩🇪E. Lee Spence

Art

b. 1947

"First understand infinity then you will understand God and how evolution is intelligent design."

🇫🇷Georges Cuvier

Science

1769–1832

"It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them."

"“No material culture is found to move from west to east across the Indus”."

William Stukeley

Medicine

1687–1765

"This mighty wall of four score miles in length is only exceeded by the Chinese wall, which makes a considerable figure upon the terrestrial globe, and may be discerned at the moon."

🇩🇪Rudolf Virchow

Medicine

1821–1902

"Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged."

🇬🇧R. G. Collingwood

Philosophy

1889–1943

"Time, as succession of past, present and future, really has its being totum simul for the thought of a spectator, and this justifies its ‘spatialized’ presentation as a line of which we can see the whole at once."

"the most significant historian of early medieval Europe under the age of 60 anywhere in the world... hat's not me being cocky, but a pretty sober assessment of the range and quality of my work."

🇬🇧Peter Levi

Education

1931–2000

"What I liked about Greece was the impressive force of the language itself, unconfined by dictionaries, spoken in the streets, in cafés and in the country."

Jagadish Chandra Bose

Science

1858–1937

"Bose was the first Indian to be admitted in person to the sanctum sanctorum of English, thus western science."

🇮🇳R. Nagaswamy

History

1930–2022

"Ramanuja is first and last a Master of Vedic personality that is the vital breadth of Indian Society from its every birth."

🇺🇸Natacha Rambova

Literature

1897–1966

"Fame is like a giant X-Ray. Once you are exposed beneath it, the very beatings of your heart are shown to a gaping world."

🇨🇦Steven Erikson

Literature

b. 1959

"'I think I understand. Before there can be disdain, there must be pride."

🇬🇧Thomas Young (scientist)

Mathematics

1773–1829

"With respect to the mathematical part of optics, the curvature of the images, formed by lenses and mirrors, has been correctly investigated, and the inaccuracy of some former estimations has been demonstrated."

Sir William Hamilton

Politics

1730–1803

"Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shook, it shines."

🇮🇳Swaraj Prakash Gupta

Entertainment

1931–2007

"Generally speaking, a temple is a 'Place of Worship'. It is also called the 'House of God'. However, for a Hindu, it is both and yet still more. It is the whole cosmos in the miniature form."

🇫🇷Prosper Mérimée

Music

Romanticism

1803–1870

"I would willingly give Thucydides for some authentic memoirs by Aspasia or by a slave of Pericles."

🇬🇧Godfrey Higgins

Literature

1772–1833

"less conventional member of the squirearchy... a political radical, reforming county magistrate and idiosyncratic historian of religions."

🇪🇬Dhul-Nun al-Misri

Science

796–860

"God gives his servant no source of strength more powerful for him than when He leads him to humiliate himself."

"My introduction to castles occurred as a schoolboy, visiting Edward I’s castles in North Wales over several summers in the early 1960s: it was a favoured holiday area of my parents."

🇷🇺Elena Efimovna Kuzmina

Military

1931–2013

"Material culture including “a cult of the horse” moves from the eastern slopes of the Urals to Central Asia, but: “There is no evidence that they reached India."

John Aubrey

Literature

1626–1697

"He pronounced the letter R very hard – a certaine signe of a Satyricall Witt."

🇮🇳D. P. Agrawal

Science

b. 1935

"The Indus civilization is still alive today."

T. E. Lawrence

Military

1888–1935

"Then rose up the horror which would make civilized man shun justice like a plague if he had not the needy to serve him as hangmen for wages."