Quote of the day by Arab scholar Ibn al-Haytham: “If learning the truth is a scientific’s goal, then he must make himself the enemy of…” |
Arab scholar Ibn al-Haytham (Image: Wikipedia) Several years ago, a historian working through a collection of old documents noticed something strange. The same story appeared in book after book, article after article. It had been repeated so often that nobody seemed to question it anymore. Yet when he traced the claim back to its original…