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"Islam is contrary to the scientific spirit, hostile to progress; it has made the countries it conquered a field closed to the rational cultivation of the mind."

— Renan, Ernest

Context: L'Islamisme et la Science — public lecture at the Sorbonne, March 29, 1883

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