Divine comedy Quote by Jim Al-Khalili

“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

I find it more comfortable to say I'm an atheist, and for that I probably have someone like Dawkins to thank.

— Jim Al-Khalili

“Many historians regard him [Offa] as the most powerful Anglo-Saxon king before Alfred the Great. In the 780s he extended his power over most…

— Jim Al-Khalili

“I suspect that if aliens did come to Earth, it would be as researchers: biologists, anthropologists, linguists, keen to understand the peculiar workings of…

— Jim Al-Khalili

I shall mention in passing just one example of a gift from the Arabs that I for one am rather grateful for: coffee --…

— Jim Al-Khalili

The difference between my beliefs and having a religious faith is that I am prepared to change my views in light of new evidence,…

— Jim Al-Khalili

“By the time of the arrival of Islam in the early seventeenth century CE, what we now call the Middle East was divided between…

— Jim Al-Khalili

However far apart we pull two entagled particles, they remain 'connected' through their common wavelength function. Their fates remain intertwined until a measurement is…

— Jim Al-Khalili

“For the early scholars of Islam, there would have been no conflict between religion and science. The early thinkers were quite clear abou their…

— Jim Al-Khalili

“It is a fact of life that oversimplified accounts of the development of science are often necessary in its teaching. Most scientific progress is…

— Jim Al-Khalili

As the son of a Protestant Christian mother and a Shia Muslim father, I have nevertheless ended up without a religious bone in my…

— Jim Al-Khalili

“the domain of quantum world is so astonishingly strange that it even makes tales of alien abductions sound perfectly reasonable”

— Jim Al-Khalili