Joseph Needham Quotes

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• The dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on
• Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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