近代物理学家爱因斯坦说过这样一段话:“西方科学的发展是以两个伟大成就为基础,那就是希腊哲学家发明形式逻辑体系(在欧几里德几何学中),以及通过系统的实验发现有可能找出因果关系(在文艺复兴时期)。在我看来,中国的圣贤没有走上这两步,那是用不着惊奇的。令人惊奇的倒是这些发现(在 The modern physicist Albert Einstein has said something like this: ”The development of Western science was based on two great achievements: the formal logic system invented by Greek philosophers (in Euclidean geometry) It is not surprising that systematic experiments have found it possible to find a causal relationship (in the Renaissance). In my opinion, it is not surprising that the sages in China have not taken these two steps