Achievement Quote by George Sarton

Perhaps the main, as well as the least obvious, achievement of the Middle Ages, was the creation of the experimental spirit, or more exactly…

— George Sarton

The 'Middle Ages/Dark Ages' were of course no such thing. Achievement in the Arabian crescent was sensational then.

— Bettany Hughes

The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior to reason.…

— Ayn Rand

That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.

— Barbara Tuchman

“Popular opinion, journalistic cliché and misinformed historians notwithstanding, recent research has shown that the Middle Ages was a period of enormous advances in science,…

— James Hannam

“The Renaissance invented the Middle Ages in order to define itself; the Enlightenment perpetuated them in order to admire itself; and the Romantics revived…

— Brian Stock

Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature. Our religion should not be a shield behind which we…

— Basmah bint Saud

Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.

— Basmah bint Saud

“Islam brought education to all; eventually ideas to innovations and discoveries that can be witnessed by the works of many Muslim Medieval physicians and…

— Syed Ziaur Rahman

“Its insistence upon “knowledge” has no doubt made medieval Muslim civi lization one of great scholarly and scientifi c productivity, and through it, Muslim…

— Franz Rosenthal

Not material or economic conditions in the ordinary sense, but perverse religious ideas explain the suspension of civilization in Europe from the 5th to…

— Joseph McCabe

It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages.

— Isaac Mayer Wise