肖培根生来就与两位伟人有缘。两位伟人,一位是说过“知识就是力量”名言的西方人培根;一位是给人类留下了一部《本草纲目》的东方人李时珍。和培根的缘份在名字上,和李时珍的缘份在乡土上——肖培根的祖籍湖北黄陂,而李时珍是湖北蕲春人。名字和籍贯并不能使人成才。肖培根之成为肖培根,源于中华民族深厚的文化积淀,源于他传统现代一肩挑的学术结构,更源于“科学技术是第一生产力”所代表的一个全新的时代。 Xiao Peigen was born with two great men. Two great men, one is Bacon, a Westerner who said that “knowledge is power.” One is Li Shizhen, an oriental man who left a “Compendium of Materia Medica” to mankind. And Bacon’s fate in the name, and Li Shizhen’s fate in the native - Xiao Peigen’s ancestral home Hubei Huangpi, and Li Shizhen is Hubei Hunchun. Name and origin do not make a difference. Xiao Peigen became Xiao Peigen rooted in the profound cultural heritage of the Chinese nation, stemming from his traditional academic structure of shoulder to shoulder, but also from a brand-new era represented by “science and technology are the primary productive forces.”