Meera Nanda > Quotes

“Claims of India’s priority in everything from mathematics, medicine and surgery—to say nothing of nuclear weapons, spaceships and other Star Trek-style technologies—have been made by prominent people at prestigious, national-level gatherings.”
― Meera Nanda, Science In Saffron: Skeptical Essays On History of Science

“Eurocentric history is deeply flawed and condescending to the rest of the world. Yet, an uncritical and self-celebratory Indo-centric history is nothing but a mirror image of uncritical and self-celebratory Eurocentrism: Both are equally illogical and equally chauvinistic.”
― Meera Nanda, Science In Saffron: Skeptical Essays On History of Science

“The conviction that we have always-already known everything that is worth knowing, and that everything we knew is only confirmed—never rejected—by science, has prevented us from developing an ethos of honest inquiry. The compulsion to establish harmony with the core of the Vedic worldview has held back the progress of science in the past, and will continue to hold us back if we continue to go down this path.”
― Meera Nanda, Science In Saffron: Skeptical Essays On History of Science