“Is Islam hostile to science?”

“Is Islam hostile to science?”

 

Arabic materia medica
A page from a medieval Arabic manuscript on medicines
(Wikimedia Commons)

 

A very interesting interview with the outspokenly atheistic Nobel-laureate physicist Steven Weinberg:

 

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/03/150301-aristotle-archimedes-einstein-darwin-ptolemy-razi-ngbooktalk/

 

Incidentally, the 1999 Nobel Prize for Chemistry went to the Egyptian-American Ahmed Zewail of the California Institute of Technology (who, sadly, died just last week), the 2015 Chemistry prize was shared by the Turkish-American Aziz Sanjar of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to the quite devout Anglo-Pakistani Muslim Mohammad Abdus Salam of Cambridge and the University of London.

 

 


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