Urdu · proper noun · Mind & Knowledge
Galileo
गैलीलियो
said ga-li-LE-o
also written: galileo, galileo galilei, jaleelo, galelio
Meaning
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian pioneer of modern observational science; an emblem of the empirical method whose power Iqbal urged the East to reclaim.
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URDU
Newton
Isaac Newton (1643-1727), founder of classical mechanics; his fixed, clockwork universe is the very picture of nature that Iqbal argued modern physics (Einstein) had since overturned in favour of a dynamic cosmos.
ARABIC
Ilm-e-Jadid
'Modern knowledge / new science' — the empirical sciences of the contemporary West. Iqbal urged Muslims to acquire it as their own lost inheritance, not to be dazzled or enslaved by it.
ARABIC
Hikmat
Wisdom; the deep design or rationale behind things.