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its way to acceptance by the reasonableness of its appeal, and by the excellence of its results when practised. and backward looking; it discourages experiment and change; and restricts
It is conservative, authoritative individual expression.
Western science is the very antithesis of this. experimental and empirical, frequently changing its ground and modifying
It is inductive, its theories and hypotheses as it progressively comes upon new truths and new facts. As Sir James Jeans says jig-saw puzzle. The person attempting to solve the problem and casting his
the scientific method is like a eye over the several pieces thinks first of all that the completed picture will be a cottage, but as he fits the parts together he finds it is going to be a bridge, while the further advance suggests to him that both his original theories were wrong. There is no finality about its findings, they are merely stepping stones to future advance. forward, ever restless, and dissatisfied with the present position. It
It is ever looking produces startling and sudden upheavals, leaving the social and economic thought far behind, it creates problems which are difficult to solve. is entirely democratic and revolutionary, scornful of the past and discontented with the present, and promising to all a life rich in material comfort and physical well-being in the future. Insatiable intellectual curiosity, optimism and faith in man's ultimate triumph over ignorance form part of the equipment of every scientist. What has been achieved is only
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a slight measure of what will be accomplished. The Western scientists are ever young, the Chinese philosophers are always old.
The mistake of the past was the exclusion of scientific thought from China's scheme of education; out and therefore the exclusion of cultural and ethical studies.
the danger of the present is the crowding
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