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Joseph Needham
(9 Dec 1900 - 24 Mar 1995)
English biochemist, science historian and embryologist.
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Science Quotes by Joseph Needham (3 quotes)
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.
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,
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.
Laboratorium est oratorium. [The place where we do our scientific work is a place of prayer.]
— Joseph Needham
In A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations by Alan L. Mackay (1991).
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- 9 Dec - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Needham's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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