These two sciences. the Science of Language and the Science of Man, cannot. at least for the present, be kept too much asunder; and many misunderstan… - Friedrich Max Müller

उनमें से कई तो सत्य के कीटाणु और प्रकाश की किरणें हैं और यह ज्यादा विस्मयकारी इसलिए है कि ये सघनतम रात्रि के आवरण से होकर हमारे पास आ रहा है।

They would not have it, they would not believe that there could be any community of origin between the people of Athens and Rome, and the so-called Niggers of India. The classical scholars scouted the idea, and I still remember the time, when 1 was a student at Leipzig and begun to study Sanskrit, with what contempt any remarks on Sanskrit or comparative grammar were treated by my teachers. . . . No one ever was for a time so completely laughed down as Professor Bopp, when he first published his Comparative Grammar of Sanskrit, Zend, Greek, Latin and Gothic. All hands were against him. (28) Unlike some of his contemporaries, Muller was effusive in his admiration for things Indian (although he never subscribed to an Indian homeland). In his course of lectures "India: What Can It Teach Us?" (1883), he declared that she was "the country most richly endowed with all the wealth, power and beauty that nature can bestow," indeed, "a very paradise on earth," a place where "the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, [and] has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life. [Such lavish praise was far too extreme for those who, as Muller himself noted, would be] "horror struck at the idea that the humanity they meet with [in India] . . . should be able to teach us any lesson.

सत्य की प्रगति के लिए अत्यधिक योगदान दिया है, उन्होंने शायद ही कभी विवाद में अपना समय खराब किया है। वे सीधे चलते गए और प्रशंसा या आलोचना की उन्होंने फिक्र नहीं की।