We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made. (Albert Einstein)

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

Albert Einstein

Related topics

count teach

Related quotes

I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
The most important part of education - to teach the meaning of to know (in the scientific sense). View quote
Simone Weil
Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly. View quote
Georg Büchner
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. View quote
Herbert Spencer
A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content. View quote
Theodore Sturgeon