Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c6.6

c6.6

"The lectures and exercises there (at the universities) are so ordered that to think or speculate on anything out of the common way can hardly occur to any man. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of childish notions which we at first imbibed."