Abdus Salam Quotes
Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.
Salam, Abdus. Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam. Edited by C. H. Lai, 3rd ed., World Scientific, 1989, p. 2.
In the Dark and Middle Ages, it was the Muslim scientists who were the most advanced and they also preserved and improved upon Western science and other knowledge when Christianity was so intolerant that science was made virtually impossible to carry out. Then the Islamic world started closing and became more intolerant of new thought and the Christian West began loosening up. Serageldin does not feel humiliated at the current weak scientific status of Islam and urges reform to again have Islam involved in world class science. Islamic modernists like Serageldin are many among educated Muslims but their views are often drowned out by the violence and extremist statements of the fundamentalists.
Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
This term described the since discredited “science” of studying the relationship between skull structure, intellect, and behavior.
The lecture was a tribute to the Russian Physicist & Dissident, Andrei Sakharov
Mohammad Abdus Salam NI(M) SPk, was a Pakistani theoretical physicist. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory. He was the first Pakistani and Muslim to receive a Nobel Prize in science and the second from an Islamic country to receive any Nobel Prize (after Anwar Sadat of Egypt).
