Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.
Interpretation
Understanding the causes of illness and wellness is essential in medicine.
Avicenna emphasizes the importance of comprehending the underlying causes of both sickness and health in the field of medicine. This perspective encourages a holistic approach to healthcare where physicians not only treat symptoms but also seek to understand the root causes of ailments to promote true healing.
In practice
During a medical conference, a speaker quoted Avicenna to highlight the need for preventative measures in healthcare.
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.
Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?
As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.
An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.
It is in the nature of water ... to become transformed into earth through a predominating earthy virtue; ... it is in the nature of earth to become transformed into water through a predominating aqueous virtue.
The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules, atoms, sub-atomic particles. Probe the smaller particles, you'll find something else, a tiny vibrating filament of energy, a little tiny vibrating string.
I simply go with what works. And what works is the healthy skepticism embodied in the scientific method. Believe me, if the Bible had ever been shown to be a rich source of scientific answers and enlightenment, we would be mining it daily for cosmic discovery.
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.
During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago
When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our curiosity.
Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.
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