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Quotes from Joseph Needham

Although there is a very large literature, still growing almost daily, on the Chinese calendar, its interest is, we suggest, much more archaeological and historical than scientific.
~ Joseph Needham
The dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on
~ Joseph Needham
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.
~ Joseph Needham
Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.
~ Joseph Needham
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 Needham
Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.
~ Joseph Needham