But Chinese civilization has the overpowering beauty of the wholly other, and only the wholly other can inspire the deepest love and the profoundest …

- Joseph Needham

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 ach…

- Joseph Needham

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…

- Joseph Needham

The dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on

- Joseph Needham

Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.

- 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 leadin…

- Joseph Needham