The following quotes illustrate the influence of Sanskrit on not just linguists but also scientists, statesmen and saints.

“Samskritam language, as has been universally recognised by those competent to form a judgement, is one of the most magnificent, the most perfect, the most prominent and wonderful sufficient literary instrument developed by the human mind.” – Shri Aurobindo.

“Samskritam is the greatest language of the world” – Max Mueller

“Panini’s grammar is not only considered a masterpiece of close reasoning and artistic arrangement but remains till today, unsurpassed in its economy of words to describe linguistic features” – Dr. Raja Ramanna

“Samskritam literature is national in one sense, but its purpose has been universal. That was why it commanded the attention of people who were not followers of a particular culture” – Dr. S.Radhakrishnan

“The Sanskrit language whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong, indeed, that no philosopher could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists.” – Sir William Jones, speaking to the Asiatic Society in Calcutta, February 2, 1786