Joseph Needham's Quotes

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.

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

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.

Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.

Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.

The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

You don't marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being.

For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.

The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.

When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.