At Princeton, C. Gillispie condemned Needham for looking at the history of Chinese science from a Marxist point of view. Other historians still insisted that China lacked a tradition of logic and experiment, so it was mistaken to try to find scientific thought there.
普林斯頓的 C.Gillispie 認為李約瑟是個馬克斯主義者，用馬克斯觀點論述中國科技史，未免不可靠；也有其他歷史學者仍然堅持中國缺乏邏輯與實驗傳統，因此從中國文化中去找科學思想，根本是錯誤的。