got to meet him when I
first went to live in Europe in 1958 I
had dinner at his home and in England in
later years I spent a few weeks with him
in Istanbul teaching a summer course
I've met him at many conferences he
became a very good friend of mine and
Abdus was very concerted scientist of
course but he was very much concerned
with science in the Muslim world and he
spent much of his efforts trying to
encourage a renaissance of Muslim
science he recalls to me the wonderful
days in the 15th century when Muslims
and Jews and Christians in Spain were
working together doing science together
and he dreamed of a time when Muslims
could join with the other people in the
world and entered the world of science
and therefore he was very very honored
to become the first Muslimthey lay
careful plans when they look this is the
content approach to discovery named
after Immanuel Kant who developed the
idea of the scientific method other
scientists have more fun and they listen
to nature with open minds and sometimes
they discover amazing things sometimes
not I call this the serendipitous
approach that's how Columbus discovered
America he didn't set out to get to a
new continent he was trying to get to
China on myko ever Magellan who set out
to sail around the world and his boats
did exactly that although he never get
got much beyond this point in the world
on his travel the two approaches mix up
on many occasions conscient efforts
people who try to look for one thing
often find something else TNT was
synthesized in 1863 and it was used as
the yellow dye for decades until it was
realized that