As people across the Arab world are all dealing with their politics, revolutions, human rights issues and uprisings, science speaks to all of us equally and we become one. The only two human endeavours that are cross-boundary at this massive scale are art and science.

Mohammed Yahia

… writing at House of Wisdom, a Middle East science blog, on the unifying power of science in the wake of this week’s Higgs boson announcement. 

Source: blogs.nature.com