Archaeology

🇫🇷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."

🇫🇷Joseph Fourier

Mathematics

1768–1830

"Profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discoveries."

Nicholas Roerich

Philosophy

1874–1947

"They will ask, "Can the time of Maitreya create a New Era?" Answer, "If the Crusades brought a new age, then truly the Era of Maitreya is a thousandfold more significant." In such consciousness should one proceed."

🇫🇷Austen Henry Layard

Politics

1817–1894

"I have always believed that successes would be the inevitable result if the two services, the army and the navy, had fair play, and if we sent the right man to fill the right place."

🇮🇳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."

🇨🇦Steven Erikson

Literature

b. 1959

"— all these Dark Lords intent on creating wastelands packed with enslaved victims ... for what?"

🇫🇷Prosper Mérimée

Music

Romanticism

1803–1870

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

Jagadish Chandra Bose

Science

1858–1937

"The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth."

🇬🇧Colin Renfrew

Politics

1937–2024

"“All the migrations postulated by Renfrew ultimately stem from a single catalyst: the crossing of Anatolian farmers into Greece… For all practical purposes, Renfrew’s hypothesis disregards Tocharian and Indo-Iranian."