爱因斯坦1953回信原文

爱因斯坦的回信原文如下：

Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers， and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (during the Renaissance). In my opinion one has not to be astonished that the Chinese sages have not made those steps. The astonishing thing is that those discoveries were made at all.

郝炘对此段话的翻译是：

西方科学发展是建立在两个重大成就的基础之上的：希腊哲学家们（在欧几里德几何学中）发明的形式逻辑体系，和（文艺复兴时期）发现的通过系统实验找到因果关系的可能性。在我看来，不必对中国哲人没能走出这些步骤大为惊讶。令人惊讶的是，竟然有人做出了那些[科学]发现。