Omar Khayyam (born 1048 AD, Neyshapur, Iran - 1123 AD, Neyshapur, Iran), was a Persian polymath, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer and poet
"Into this Universe, and Why not knowing Nor Whence, like Water, willy-nilly flowing And out of it, as Wind along the Waste, I know not Wither, willy-nilly blowing."