冲突与协调:中西文化与杨振宁的科学创造

Confliction and Coordination:Chinese and Western Culture and Yang Zhenning’s Scientific Creation

文化是一个大系统,其中,中西文化的既冲突又协调的关系,正是文化这一大系统下的两个"负阴抱阳,独立不改"的重要子系统。它们在具有浓厚中国文化背景的华裔卓越科学家身上体现得尤其鲜明和具体。本文首次以杨振宁为范例,对中国文化在现代科学创造中的作用进行了专门具体的实证研究,指出:在对待中西文化的关系上,杨振宁深受中国文化重整体、致中和的影响。具体地说,对待中国文化,他在吸收中批判;对待西方文化,他在批判中吸收。基于中西元素既冲突又协调的具体的实证分析,本文生动有力地诠释了杨振宁"从不只一层意义上说,我是中国和西方两种文化共同的产物"这一结论,或者说是中国文化气质与西方科学精神二者的美妙结合成就了杨振宁的伟大。

As two subsystems of the culture the opposite but also coordinate phases for each system, the Chinese culture and the Western culture are other. Therefore, the two cultures play a very important role in the scientific creation when Chinese scientists even aboard do scientific research. Taking Zhen Ning Yang as an example, the paper researched the roles of Chinese culture and the Western culture which played in scientific creation , when Chinese scientists do scientific research.