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Joseph Needham
(9 Dec 1900 - 24 Mar 1995)

English biochemist, science historian and embryologist.


Science Quotes by Joseph Needham (2)

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.
— Joseph Needham
The Grand Titration (1969), 176.
See also:  |  Beauty (35)  |  China (2)  |  Civilization (46)  |  Inspiration (11)  |  Learning (46)  |  Love (30)  |  Other (2)

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 Fundator et Primus Abbas of biochemistry in England.
Co-author with D. M. Needham,
— Joseph Needham
'F. G. Hopkins' Personal Influence'. In J. Needham and E. Baldwin (eds.), Hopkins and Biochemistry, 1861-1947 (1949), 115.
See also:  |  Biography (159)  |  Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (10)


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