中国历史上为什么产生不了科学

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中国历史上为什么产生不了科学

帖子 Mia2014 » 周六 10月 23, 2021 3:57 pm

J.E. Switzer曾问到爱因斯坦这个问题,我在网上找到如下这段英文原文,并附翻译:

In 1953 Albert Einstein wrote the following in a letter to J. E. Switzer:
The development of Western Science has been based on two great achievements, the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility of finding out causal relationships by systematic experiment (at the Renaissance). In my opinion one need not be astonished that the Chinese sages did not make these steps. The astonishing this is that these discoveries were made at all.

1953 年,阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦在给 J. E. Switzer 的一封信中写道:
西方科学的发展建立在两项伟大成就的基础上,希腊哲学家发明了形式逻辑系统(欧几里得几何),以及发现通过系统实验找出因果关系的可能性(文艺复兴时期)。 在我看来,中国的圣人没有走上这两步,这一点儿不必感到惊讶。 令人惊讶的是,他们作出了这些发现。

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