Als Quote by Ibn Khaldun

“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

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

All sciences originated among the sons of Israel, the reason being the existence of prophecy among them which made their perfection in the sciences…

— Averroes

“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

Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.

— Ibn Khaldun

Scientists in different disciplines don't speak the same language. They publish in different journals. It's like the United Nations: You come together, but no…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“, the core of [Al-Kindi's] philosophical enterprise was centered in the geometrical approach to the solution of all problems associated with metaphysics and cosmology.…

— Dimitri Gutas

“This translation movement, during the course of which almost all non-literary and non-historical secular Greek works on science and philosophy were translated upon demand…

— Dimitri Gutas

No one really knew the sciences except the Lord Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, by reason of his length of life and experience, as well…

— Roger Bacon

“To be sure, there were attempts at translating the philosophy that was written in Greek into other languages – the presumed intention being to…

— Dimitri Gutas

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley