Algorithms Quote by Amartya Sen

“By the end of the eleventh century,” Edmond said, “the greatest intellectual exploration and discovery on earth was taking place in and around Baghdad.…

— Dan Brown

“European scholars had translated into Latin two important Arabic manuscripts, written by the ninth-century Persian mathematician Abū ‘Abdallāh Muammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī (ca. 780–ca.…

— Keith J. Devlin

The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance, they invented…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Al-Kind¯ı (ca. 800 – ca. 870), the first to develop philosophical thought as such in Arabic, was a polymath in the translated sciences and…

— Dimitri Gutas

“Cryptology was born among the Arabs. They were the first to discover and write down the methods of cryptanalysis. The people that exploded out…

— David Kahn

An Arab activist can take pride in the Arab heritage of mathematics and science or he can take pride in his religion, and there's…

— Amartya Sen

There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

“One cannot, therefore, understand Arabic science without considering the extent to which Islam influenced scientific and philosophical thought. Arabic science was, throughout its golden…

— Jim Al-Khalili

“It is as if the memory of an entire civilisation and its contribution to the sum of knowledge has been virtually wiped from human…

— Ehsan Masood

There is an Arabic writer who wrote philosophy and poetry and who brought all religions and all the world together.

— Salma Hayek

“Language was critically important to the religious transition. The rise of Islam meant not just the eclipse of Christianity but the near annihilation of…

— Philip Jenkins

The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry ; a science for…

— Alexander von Humboldt