He at least got one thing right:

Sciences in the west didn't just come out of the blue. Most educated Chinese converted to western culture have a naive view regarding the legacy of western sciences. Often in awe of their visible effects today, tracing back to the Greeks a little, then happy with stopping there, and they always forget that the Greeks had to learnt from the Egyptians to become inspired for their subsequential creations too.

However, when Fang started to "think", he fell for the same trap - oversimplifying things. Therefore he was still not truly inspired by what he had just witnessed.

 

 

 

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• 如果說話不“oversimplifying things”， -豆角兒- ♂ (83 bytes) () 11/08/2019 postreply 20:04:28

• There is a difference btw summarizing and oversimplifying . -中間小謝- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/08/2019 postreply 20:35:53

• You have greatly oversimplified what you were trying to say: -豆角兒- ♂ (974 bytes) () 11/08/2019 postreply 22:14:42

• 我們不要糾結 oversimplify 指什麽了，展開討論太長。 -中間小謝- ♂ (555 bytes) () 11/08/2019 postreply 22:46:22

• 這不僅僅是英文水平問題，這是概念含混不清的問題， -豆角兒- ♂ (1763 bytes) () 11/08/2019 postreply 23:44:33

• 我覺得你還是跟原文作者直接討論比較好。 -中間小謝- ♂ (517 bytes) () 11/09/2019 postreply 00:06:57

• 好吧。你認為自己不需要嚴謹，更不需要臉紅。 -豆角兒- ♂ (128 bytes) () 11/09/2019 postreply 00:43:40

• 沒品。不過如此。 -中間小謝- ♂ (68 bytes) () 11/09/2019 postreply 01:07:26

• 是的，就我這點兒學識，我根本沒有資格和原文作者討論問題。 -豆角兒- ♂ (192 bytes) () 11/09/2019 postreply 01:11:38

• 你有。討論問題怎麽會沒有資格呢？無論跟誰。 -中間小謝- ♂ (242 bytes) () 11/09/2019 postreply 07:15:53

• 是，我們兩個之間的區別在於我認為我沒有資格，因為我知道自己的無知， -豆角兒- ♂ (170 bytes) () 11/09/2019 postreply 10:48:05

• 你沒搞懂現代科學和古希臘文明的聯係是什麽。古希臘可能從古埃及學了些東西，但那些東西與現代科學無關。 -QualityWithoutName- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/08/2019 postreply 21:42:11