“The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.”

— Ibn Sina · Wisdom quote

Physician and philosopher · 980 – 1037

Persian polymath of the Islamic Golden Age, known in the West as Avicenna. His Canon of Medicine was a standard medical text in Europe for centuries.

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