Joseph Needham

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.

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.

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.

I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.