Tuesday, 13 March 2012

"Salam was primarily a scientist, but science writer Nigel Calder recalled Salam’s other motives: his controlled fury – ‘cosmic anger’ – about the injustice of a world where lack of opportunity can handicap even the most gifted students; and his indignation at the decline of science in the heritage of Islam. It was a ‘wonderfully romantic story’ that needed to be told, of a young lad from a market town in the Punjab who became a leader of science and earned a Nobel Prize, but who also emerged as a champion of the world’s poor."


http://www.amazon.com/Cosmic-Anger-Abdus-Muslim-Scientist/dp/0199208468#reader_0199208468

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