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However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science.

— Norman Lamm

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.

— Clyde Tombaugh

Mad science is my middle name.

— James Jannard

There is no other language as similar to Hebrew like Arabic.

— Yitzhak Navon

Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason.

— Deepak Chopra

The name 'Amazon' was not originally Greek; linguists believe it derived from the ancient Iranian word for 'warrior.'

— Adrienne Mayor

Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.

— Johann Georg Hamann

Philosophy was once considered science.

— P. J. O'Rourke

It seems likely that Jesus, being a scholarly young man, learned some Hebrew, but that's conjecture. It's more likely that Jesus spoke some Greek, as this language dominated the region after the conquests of Alexander the Great in the fourth century.

— Jay Parini

✗Opposing Perspectives

I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for 'history.' The closest word for it is memory.

— David Miliband

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

— Henry David Thoreau