Look at the fourth-century Islamic calendar. The book “The Renaissance of Islam,” by Adam Mez, shows that the entire Islamic environment is the world’s market for science and the center of it is Iran, in the cities of Isfahan, Ray, Fars, Khorasan, Herat, and Merv, etc. These cities were the center and the summit of the world’s scientific efforts, but, sadly, the new generations do not know about it. By not knowing it, I do not mean that they do not have information about it. They actually do and have heard about it a hundred times; it’s in books everywhere, but the new generation has not believed it by heart! Without rejecting the idea in their words, both the new generation and the old one are pessimistic about Iran's past. This is because western civilization and this fussy technology have filled the environment in such a way that no one dares probe into their own ancestry!
Statements at a meeting with members of IRIB department of knowledge, February 04, 1992
