Joseph Needham
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"Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham", Companion of Honour/CH, Fellow of the Royal Society/FRS, Fellow of the British Academy/FBA, also known as "Li Yuese", was a British scientist, historian and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Science and technology in China/Chinese science. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1941, and as a fellow of the British Academy in 1971. In 1992, the Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom/Queen conferred on him the Order of the Companions of Honour/Companionship of Honour and the Royal Society noted he was the only living person to hold these three titles.

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The whole history of calendar-making is that of successive attempts to reconcile the irreconcilable, and the numberless systems of intercalated months, and the like, are thus of minor scientific interest.

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.