As for China having contributed to science, the worst kind of historian said that China basically had nothing that could properly be called scientific civilization. Those who were slightly better informed announced that China had only a humanistic kind of science but no natural science.
至於科技貢獻，按李約瑟的說法是，下焉者以為中國根本沒有足以稱作科學的文明可言；稍稱博識者，則宣告中國只有人文科學，無自然科學。