Shirazi is the author of those luminous verses that now stand at the entrance of the headquarters of the United Nations: All of the sons of Adam are part of one single body, They are of the same essence. When time afflicts us with pain In one part of that body All the other parts feel it too. If you fail to feel the pain of others You do not deserve the name of man. Perhaps poetry is another of science’s deepest roots: the capacity to see beyond the visible.
