The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers. - George Sarton

It is childish to assume that science began in Greece; the Greek "miracle" was prepared by millenia of work in Egypt, Mesopotamia and possibly in other regions. Greek science was less an invention than a revival.

All men are our brothers. As far as the discovery of the truth is concerned, they are all working for the same purpose; they may be separated by the accidents of space and time, and by the exigencies of race, religion, nationality, and other groupings; from the point of view of eternity they are working together.

Arabic science was the fruit of Semitic genius fertilized by the Iranian genius.