H.G. Wells

 
“From a new angle and with a fresh vigour it (the Arab mind) took up that systematicdevelopment of positive knowledge which the Greeks had begun and relinquished. If the Greekwas the father, then the Arab was the foster-father of the scientific method of dealing withreality, that is to say, by absolute frankness, the utmost simplicity of statement and explanation,exact record and exhaustive criticism. Through the Arabs it was and not by the Latin route thatthe modern world received that gift of light and power.”