Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Ibn Arabi
Born: July 26, 1165
Died: November 16, 1240 (aged 75)
Bio: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibnʿArabī al-Ḥātimī aṭ-Ṭāʾī , also known simply as Shaykh Al-Akbar, "the great master", was an Arab Andalusian Sunni Scholar of Islam, Sufi mystic, poet, and philosopher.
Known for:
- Les illuminations de La Mecque
- The bezels of wisdom
- The Tarjumán al-ashwáq
- The Seven Days of the Heart