Joseph Needham Quote

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.

Science and Civilisation in China (Volume 2) (p. 286), At The University Press. 1954