Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation.
Science is the one culture that's truly global - protons, proteins and Pythagoras's Theorem are the same from China to Peru. It should transcend all barriers of nationality. It should straddle all faiths, too.
I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.
I think my father, who was Chinese, basically felt if we didn't major in science, we would starve on the streets, so we all went into science unquestioningly. I kind of faked my way through physics.
I find when you talk with the Chinese on most subjects, they are very practical.
Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.
You have to be willing to totally immerse yourself in China in order to have in-depth exposure to China.
One of the major problems with China is that its innovation is largely borrowed technology.
China itself is now in the process of sloughing off not only the communist system, but also those outdated parts of Confucianism that prevent the rapid acquisition of knowledge needed to adjust to new ways of life and work.