"As a scientist, I can only deal with things which I can specifically see. I can understand embryology and developmental biology. I can understand words that are translated to me from Qur'ân. As I gave example before, if I were to transpose myself into that era, knowing what I do today and describing things, I could not describe things that were described...

I see no evidence to refute concept that this individual Muhammad had to be developing this information from some place... so I see nothing here in conflict with concept that divine intervention was involved in what he was able to write..."

"...our knowledge of these disciplines is such, that it is impossible to explain how a text produced at time of Qur'ân could have contained ideas that have only been discovered in modern times."

"The above observation makes hypothesis advanced by those who see Muhammad as author of Qur'ân untenable. How could a man, from being illiterate, become most important author, in terms of literary merits, in whole of Arabic literature?

How could he then pronounce truths of a scientific nature that no other human-being could possibly have developed at that time, and all this without once making slightest error in his pronouncement on subject?".