也许最后当东方赶上西方的时候，历史给我们上的一课就是——牛顿和梅文鼎究竟谁是经典力学之父已经没有那么重要了。

Perhaps the real lesson of history is that by the time the east overtakes the west, it will no longer matter much that Newton, and not Mei, was the father of classical physics.

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（幻灯片出现：自然界遵循一定得规律，用牛顿的话说就是”自然哲学就是找出自然界规律的学科“（科学在牛顿那个年代称之为自然哲学）尽管人类不断努力去追寻这些规律的更精确形式，也许最终找到了他们的最终形式，但是这些规律不仅仅是人类的思维构想。

(slide-"Nature obeys laws and, in Newton's words, 'it is the business of natural philosophy to find them out.' (Natural philosophy was, in his day, the term for science.)

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对牛顿而言，炼金术也许也比化学更有用。

For Newton, alchemy may also have proved bigger than chemistry.

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Maybe F = -kx should be called Newton's law?

也许应该把 F = -kx 称作牛顿定律

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