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d. 1037 Iran

Avicenna (Persian: ابن سینا )(c. 980 in Balkh, Khorasan – 1037 in Hamedan), also known as Ibn Sīnā and commonly known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna (Greek Aβιτζιανός), was an Iranian Muslim polymath and the foremost physician and philosopher of his time. He was also an astronomer, chemist, Hafiz, logician, mathematician, poet, psychologist, physician, physicist, scientist, Sheikh, soldier, statesman and theologian.

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Also known as: Ibn Sina

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The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

On Medicine (1020)

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

Familiar Medical Quotations (1968)

God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and his essence cannot change.

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

Religious law makes it illegal for the ignorant to drink wine, but intelligence makes it legal for the intellectual.

Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

On Medicine (1020)

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

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