In a similar vein, the great Albert Einstein, although he did not know much about China, also said that if the "philosophical" Chinese had achieved anything scientific then it would have surprised him much more than their evident lack of achievement.
大名鼎鼎的愛因斯坦雖對中國鮮有所知，也放言中國哲人不能取得科學成就，不足驚怪，如果他們居然有這些成就，才叫奇事。