Joseph Needham Quotes

United Kingdom, Biochemist
December 9, 1900 – March, 24, 1995.

Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham CH FRS FBA (/ˈniːdəm/) was a British biochemist, historian and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science and technology. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1941, and a fellow of the British Academy in 1971. In 1992, Queen Elizabeth II conferred on him the Companionship of Honour, and the Royal Society noted he was the only living person to hold these three titles.

Also known as Historian

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.

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- Dogs
- Moves
- Caravan

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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- Future
- Idea
- Relations
But nothing ever put 'Hoppy' in the shade. No one could fail to recognize in the little inspiration... the authentic gold of intellectual inspiration, the Fundator et Primus Abbas of biochemistry in England.

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- Inspiration
- Intellectual
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.

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- Desire
- Learn
- Beauty
Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.

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- Science
- Technology
- Root