看了文科学者的翻译，很受启发，故有下面翻译，供大家批评。

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.

西方科学的发展基于两大成就：一是希腊哲学家完成的形式逻辑系统，二是文艺复兴时期建立的系统实验方法。中国的先人没有完成这些成就可以理解，而为人们难以理解的是上述两大成就来自于人类自身。