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But Chinese civilization has the overpowering beauty of the wholly other, and only the wholly other can inspire the deepest love and the profoundest desire to learn.

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Our proper conclusion seems to me to be that the conceptual framework of Chinese associative or coordinative thinking was essentially something different from ththat of European causal and "legal" or nomothetic thinking. That it did not give rise to 17 -century theoretical science is no justification for calling it primitive.

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Organization is not something fundamentally mystical and unamenable to scientific attack, but rather the basic problem confronting the biologist... It is for us to investigate the nature of this biological organization, not to abandon it to the metaphysicians because the rules of physics do not seem to apply to it.

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There was no confidence that the code of Nature's laws could be unveiled and read, because there was no assurance that a divine being, even more rational than ourselves, had ever formulated such a code capable of being read.

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Organization and Energy are the two fundamental problems which all science has to solve.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Joseph Needham

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Born: December 6, 1900
Died: March 24, 1995 (aged 94)
Bio: Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham was a British scientist, historian and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science.
Known for:
  1. Science in traditional China (1981)
  2. The grand titration (1969)
  3. A history of embryology (1934)
  4. Heavenly clockwork (1960)

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