Jalal

“في أثناء عملي الوظيفي، كان عليّ، تنفيذاً لقاعدة بروتوكولية، أن أصلي صلاتي عيدي الفطر والأضحى خلف قادة دول، مثل الرئيس الجزائري الشاذلي ابن جديد، والملك حسن الثاني ملك المغرب. وكان ذلك يجري أمام عدسات كاميرات التيليفزيون. وكنت في كل مرة ألمس الروح الديمقراطية التي تضيفها الصلاة الإسلامية حتى على مثل هذه الأجواء. فسجود ملك على الأرض مرتدياً جواربه أمر جد مختلف عن خطو رئيس فرنسا في كاتدرائية ريمس نحو موضع جلوسه المميز.”
― Murad Hofmann, الطريق إلى مكة

“In a darkened world no longer illuminated by the light of this center [God], technical advances are scarcely more than despairing attempts to make Hell a more agreeable place to live in. This must be particularly emphasized against those who think that by spreading the civilization of science and technology even to the uttermost ends of the earth, they can furnish all the essential preconditions for a golden age. One cannot escape the Devil so easily as that.”
― Werner Heisenberg, Across the Frontier

“Weinberg said: "The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless." I must disagree with my old teacher. To me the universe seems quite the opposite of pointless. It seems that the more we learn, the more we see how it all fits together. As we study the universe as a whole, we realize that microcosm and macrocosm are, increasingly, the same subject. By unifying them, we are learning that nature is as it is not because it is the chance consequence of a random series of meaningless events; quite the opposite. More and more, the universe appears to be as it is because it must be that way.”
― George Smoot, Wrinkles in Time

“I have gained this by philosophy; I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.”
― Aristotle