Joseph Needham quotes
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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.”
-- Joseph NeedhamSource : Joseph Needham (2013). “The Grand Titration: Science and Society in East and West”, p.176, Routledge
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“The dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on”
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“Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.”
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“The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.”
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“To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison with what the Old World had achieved by the time of the Han, the Gupta, and the Hellenistic age. The fact is that the Amerindian high cultures were a human modality of their own, and those Spaniards who came among them first would have had the sensation, if they had ever heard of such literature, of treading in a world of imaginative science fiction. But it was real, and the Amerindian achievements deserve all our sympathy and praise.”
-- Joseph NeedhamSource : Joseph Needham, Gwei-Djen Lu (1985). “Trans-Pacific Echoes and Resonances: Listening Once Again”, p.64, World Scientific
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“But nothing ever put 'Hoppy' in the shade. No one could fail to recognize in the little figure... the authentic gold of intellectual inspiration, the Fundator et Primus Abbas of biochemistry in England.”
-- Joseph Needham
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“I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.”
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“I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.”
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Source : Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.22
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“Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.”
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Source : Interview with Mary Fairchild, www.thoughtco.com. March 24, 2017.
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