مسلمانوں کا نیوٹن ۔ ڈاکٹر عبدالسلام — Page 389
379 years ago۔Unless developing countries grasp this fact, they will remain impoverished۔66 As a religious man, Salam insisted that the Holy Quran encourages its followers to seek knowledge about nature۔But he wrote many times that religious people in Islamic countries often boycott science, despite the magnificent accomplishments of Muslim scientists and philosophers of past centuries۔Hussain concurs that, "science is often ignored by many religious scholars and Mullahs in some Islamic countries like Pakistan"۔However, he believes the Islamic world is not inherently opposed to science۔"Most people in the Islamic world, "Hussains says, "adapt to modern science very well and are hungry for knowledge۔Except for misguided minority, who oppose modern science in the name of so-called indigenous non-Western knowledge, most people welcome scientific knowledge and the benefits it brings۔" That, too, is one of the enduring legacies of Salam, another example of his relentless desire for unification۔RESEARCH GROUP LEADERS AT THE ICTP۔(L-R) Miguel Virasaro Second director of ICTP, G۔Panza, Alberto Colavita, Yu Lu, Filippo Giorgi, Seifallah Randjbar-Daemi۔Dr Virasaro has now retired, and the third director Of ICTP is Professor Sreenivasan of University of Maryland, USA۔