ABSTRACT
Joseph Needham (1), after lifelong comparative study, wrote in his book, Science and Civilisation in China as follows:
It is my conviction that the Chinese proved themselves able to speculate about Nature at least as well as the Greeks in their earlier period. If China produced no Aristotle, it was, I would suggest, because the inhibitory factors which prevented the rise of modern science and technology there began to operate already before the time at which an Aristotle could have been produced. But apart from the vision of the Taoists, there runs throughout the Chinese history a current of rational naturalism and of enlightened scepticism, often much stronger than what was found at corresponding times in that Europe where modern science and technology in fact grew up.
