Aiman Abdel-Samad

“Many people remember that when in 1977 the Voyager spacecraft was launched, opinions were canvassed as to what artefacts would be most appropriate to leave in outer space as a signal of man's cultural achievements on earth. The American astronomer Carl Sagan proposed that 'if we are to convey something of what humans are about then music has to be a part of it.' To Sagan's request for suggestions, the eminent biologist Lewis Thomas answered, 'I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach.' After a pause, he added, 'But that would be boasting.”
― John Eliot Gardiner, Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven

“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man”
― T.S. Eliot

“Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“La verdad científica está más allá de toda lealtad y deslealtad.”
― Isaac Asimov, Trilogía de la fundación