Philology

🇺🇸Sheldon Pollock

Literature

b. 1948

"There is nothing remarkable about the people in premodern South Asia having a clear and accurate conception of the spatial organization of their world."

🇮🇹Tullio De Mauro

Politics

1932–2017

"It is not possible to fully understand modern world culture without appreciating its connection and its continuity with the heritage of classical culture."

🇬🇧Frederic G. Kenyon

Politics

1863–1952

"It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers."

"A scholar like myself who is not a Sinologist and yet ventures the proposition that Chinese languages should be rewritten in the Greek alphabet is treading on uncharted territory and does so at his peril."

"The Macedonian language is actually an artifact produced for primarily political reasons."

🇬🇧William Jones (philologist)

Mathematics

1746–1794

"Plato drew many of his notions from the sages of Hindustán."

Hermann Samuel Reimarus

Philosophy

Enlightenment

1694–1768

"It was then clearly not the intention or the object of Jesus to suffer and to die, but to build up a worldly kingdom, and to deliver the Israelites from bondage."

🇧🇬Parteniy Zografski

Religion

1818–1876

"Our language, as it is well known, is divided into two main dialects, of which one is spoken in Bulgaria and Thrace, and the other one in Macedonia."

Hermann Grassmann

Mathematics

1809–1877

"Mechanics, according to the principles of the theory of extension" An English translation of one Grassmann's papers on the applications of exterior algebra"