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Capacity to endure through infinite transformation must be innate in…
Quote byJagadish Chandra Bose · 1858–1937
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Science and National Consciousness in Bengal: 1870-1930, In page=106.
English (original)
Capacity to endure through infinite transformation must be innate in that mighty civilization which has seen the intellectual culture of the Nile Valley of Assyria and of Babylon wax and wane and disappear, and which today gazes on the future with the same invincible faith with which it met the past.
— Jagadish Chandra Bose
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