If the books of the Muslims had not been burned, we would be wandering among the galaxies today. – Pierre Curie

The 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics winner, the French physicist Pierre Curie, says “we splatted the atom only with the 30 books left us from Andalusia. If we could have the chance to examine the hundreds of thousands of books, which had been burned by Hulagu Khan [The Mongol ruler that burned the very books of the Islamic civilization], we would be now wandering among the galaxies today.”