A biography for Joseph Needhamhasn’t been written yet.
“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 of the future.”
“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.”