Tom Payne

Ibn Sina: "This is the burden every physician must learn to bear. You can't look upon death as the enemy."
Rob Cole: "Than what? A friend?"
Ibn Sina: "I've calculated the orbits of all these stars and planets. Filled volumes with calculations. I have barely scratched the real secrets of creation."
Rob Cole: "Isn't it frustrating there's so much you don't know?"
Ibn Sina: "No. It fills me with awe. How pale and tedious would this world be without mystery."

"Master, nothing is as it is in the books! Nothing!"

"I don't want to treat warts all my life. I don't want to pull teeth and sell horse piss as a miracle tonic. I want to learn how to cure cataracts, side sickness and all other diseases."

Rebecca: "In my fever, I dreamt that we were man and wife. We had children... four!"
Rob Cole: "Did we roam around in a barber's car?"
Rebecca: "No, we lived in a great city. Where you built a Madraza!"
Rob Cole: "All by myself?"

Rebecca: I helped.

"May the Lord have mercy upon me! Bless me in my long and dangerous journey. Let not the waves engulf me nor sea monsters devour me. Let not bandits slit my throat, or wolves eat me alive. Let me not starve or get lost in the dark woods or cold mountains. And please let Jesus forgive me that I shall deny my faith and soil myself with sin to serve your creation and glory."

Rob Cole: "How long would it take me to get there?"
Jew: "Over a year. First you will have to go the south coast of England, then you cross the Channel, then you walk through France, and take a sailboat along the coast of Africa. Then you arrive in Egypt. And here... you will be killed."
Rob Cole: "Why?"
Jew: "From this point, the Muslim world begins. Arabia, Persia... But Christians have been banished from everywhere, only we Jews are tolerated. My condolences. You worship the wrong God."

Ibn Sina: "You seem more interested in medicine than my other patients."
Rob Cole: "I've come to be a student of Ibn Sina."
Ibn Sina: "Have you now?"
Rob Cole: "I've been told he's the greatest healer in all the world."
Ibn Sina: "No he's not that great. Quite ordinary, really."
Rob Cole: "Do you know him?"
Ibn Sina: "A little better each day."

Rob Cole: "Up in time for class, Karim. What's wrong? Did your father realize there is more to studying than just buying books?"
Karim: "One cannot be up in time for class if one never went to bed."