The most noble sciences, are those which bring us closer to the Creator; those which help us be pleasing to Him. - Ibn Hazm

You came to me just before
the Christians rang their bells.
The half-moon was rising
looking like an old man's eyebrow
or a delicate instep.
And although it was still night
when you came a rainbow
gleamed on the horizon,
showing as many colours
as a peacock's tail.

Whosoever has a natural leaning towards a science, even if it was less noble than another, should not abandon it for the other because if he did he would be like someone who would be growing coconuts in al-Andalus and olive trees in India, crops that would never fructify.

The Earth is spherical despite what is popularly believed … the proof is that the Sun is always vertical to a particular spot on Earth.