Among rabbis of his generation, Heller was exceptionally well versed in the secular sciences.
Unlike his predecessors, he was not an opponent of secular science.
Here the youth devoted himself to the study of secular sciences to which he had already seriously applied himself during his Talmudic studies.
Those smart youngsters in India and China whom you keep hearing about are learning secular science, not biblical literalism.
Ibn Taymiyyah acquainted himself with the secular and religious sciences of his time.
Leon was a prolific writer, and produced works in many branches of secular science, as well as on distinctively Jewish subjects.
They studied the secular sciences with the same zeal as the Bible and Talmud.
But secular science contains a vast number of such propositions, and on all these, therefore, the church has power to pronounce .
During Ulugh Beg's government the madrasah was a centre of secular science.
The message is one in which secular science and religious philosophy meet: if you take from the earth, you must also give back.