What people said about Sir J. C. Bose

• Lord Kelvin wrote to Bose that he "was literally filled with wonder and admiration: allow me to ask you to accept my conratulations for so much success in the difficult and novel experimental problems which you have attacked"

• M. Cornu, former president of French Academy of Sciences, wrote to Bose in 1897, "the very first result of your researches testify to your power of furthering the progress of science. For my own part, I hope to take full advantage of the perfection to which you have brought your apparatus, for the benefit of Ecole Polytechnique and for the sake of furhter researches I wish to complete"

• Rabindranath Tagore's poem on Sir J. C. Bose,