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.


The Grand Titration: Science and Society in East and West (p. 350), University of Toronto Press. 1969

Joseph Needham Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...