"Apabila seseorang menyedari sepenuhnya sejauh mana eksperimen Arab (iaitu Muslim), pemikiran Arab dan penulisan Arab, dia akan melihat bahawa tanpa orang Arab, sains dan falsafah Eropah tidak akan berkembang pada masa ia berkembang. Orang Arab bukan sekadar penyalur pemikiran Yunani, malah pembawa yang sebenar, yang bukan sahaja memelihara disiplin ilmu yang telah mereka pelajari, tetapi juga memperluaskan skopnya. Apabila kira-kira pada tahun 1100, orang Eropah mula berminat secara serius dengan sains dan falsafah musuh Saracen mereka, disiplin-disiplin itu berada di puncak kegemilangannya; dan orang Eropah terpaksa mempelajari segala yang boleh mereka pelajari daripada orang Arab sebelum mereka sendiri dapat membuat kemajuan selanjutnya."
"Sama seperti ramai orang Islam hari ini yang merasa rendah diri apabila berhadapan dengan Barat, sejarah menunjukkan bahawa peranan itu sepenuhnya terbalik apabila orang Eropah memandang orang Islam. Watt juga menceritakan, 'Perasaan rendah diri yang dihadapi Eropah Barat terhadap tamadun Islam mempunyai pelbagai aspek. Teknologi Islam lebih unggul daripada Eropah dalam banyak hal dan lebih banyak kemewahan tersedia bagi orang Islam yang kaya; tetapi ini mungkin faktor kecil. Dari segi ketenteraan, orang Saracen pernah ditakuti pada masa lalu, tetapi kini kesatria Norman terbukti setara dengan mereka. Namun, keluasan pemerintahan Islam sangat mengagumkan. Pada awal abad kedua belas, orang menganggap dunia terdiri daripada tiga bahagian, iaitu Asia, Afrika dan Eropah. Yang terbesar daripadanya, Asia, dipercayai hampir seluruhnya beragama Islam, begitu juga sebahagian besar Afrika, manakala tidak seluruh Eropah beragama Kristian. Dengan itu, dianggap bahawa hampir dua pertiga dunia adalah Muslim. Bagi mana-mana orang Kristian yang pernah berhubung dengan orang Islam, rasa keunggulan mereka yang tidak tergoyahkan tentulah mengganggu. Secara umum, perasaan orang Eropah Barat terhadap Islam tidak jauh berbeza daripada perasaan kelas yang tertindas dalam sebuah negara besar.'"
H.G. Wells dalam bukunya The Outline of History berkata:
“When one becomes aware of the full extent of Arab (i.e. Muslim) experimenting, Arab thinking and Arab writing, one sees that without the Arabs, European science and philosophy would not have developed when they did. The Arabs were no mere transmitters of Greek thought, but genuine bearers, who both kept alive the disciplines they had been taught and extended their range. When about 1100, Europeans became seriously interested in the science and philosophy of their Saracen enemies, those disciplines were at their zenith; and the Europeans had to learn all they could from the Arabs before they themselves could make further advances.” Just as many Muslims today have a feeling of inferiority when they are confronted by the West, the history shows that the role was entirely reversed when the Europeans looked at the Muslims. Watt also narrated, “The feeling of inferiority with which Western Europe confronted Islamic civilisation had various facets. Islamic technology was superior to European at many points and more luxuries were available to wealthy Muslims; but this was probably a minor factor. Militarily the Saracens had been feared in the past, but now the Norman knights were proving a match for them. The extent of Islamic rule, however, was formidable. In the early twelfth century, men regarded the world as consisting of three parts, Asia, Africa and Europe. The largest of these, Asia, was thought to be almost entirely Muslim, and so was much of Africa, while not the whole of Europe was Christian. In this way it was supposed that nearly two-thirds of the world was Muslim. For any Christian who had come in contact with Muslims, too, their unshakeable sense of superiority must have been disturbing. In general the feelings of western Europeans against Islam were not unlike those of an underprivileged class in a great state.” H.G. Wells in his book The Outline of History, said :