A fresh-faced lad on the eve of his wedding night asks his mother, "Mom, why are wedding dresses white?"
The mother looks at her son and replies, "Son, this shows the town that your bride is pure."
The son thanks his mom, and then seeks his father opinion, "Dad, why are wedding dresses white?"
The father looks at his son in surprise and says, "Son, all household appliances come in white."
Ali QushjiDied 16 Dec 1474Ali Qushji, Qushju-zada Abu al-Qasim 'Ala al-Din 'Ali b. Muhammad was a Turkish philosopher, theologian, mathematician, and astronomer who played a prominent intellectual role in the court of the Ulugh Beg in Samarqand (his birthplace) and was after the assassination of his patron invited to Istanbul by Ottoman Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror. Qushji traveled through Iran and Anatolia and eventually assumed a chair in the sciences at the college (madrasa) of Fatih, and later Aya Sofia. His main goal was to free sciences from Aristotelian physical and metaphysical principles. He also entertained the possibility of the Earth's rotation. |
