The Arab world is also the world that produced some of the greatest improvements in mathematics and in science. Even today, when a Princeton mathematician does an algorithm, he may not remember that "algorithm" derived from the name al-Khwarizmi, who is a ninth-century Arab mathematician.
Amartya SenI left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.
Amartya SenUltimately, imperialism made even the British working classes suffer. This is a point which the British working classes found quite difficult to swallow, but they did, actually.
Amartya SenThe success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.
Amartya SenThere is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children
Amartya SenI think just as armament had a major impact of a negative kind in the world, education is something which has a major impact of a positive kind in the world. And I think the American population, with its humanity and with its concern about the future of the world, has a real reason to think about what it can do to help the world in expanding education.
Amartya Sen