Sung Kuang-yu, a dean at Fokuang University and head of its Institute of Life Studies, points out that modern Western science has been built on a "mechanistic conception of the universe." Scientists have believed that the universe's truths can be found by continually breaking things down into smaller, simpler components, analyzing them, and then putting them back together piece by piece into a detailed structure.
佛光大學教務長兼生命學研究所所長宋光宇則指出，近代西方科學是建立在「宇宙機械論」的基礎上的，科學家認為宇宙真理可以藉著不斷的簡化、分解，再將最細微的組織一塊塊拼湊起來來瞭解。