根據魯迅喺《吶喊》嘅自序入面記載，喺清末嘅洋務學堂入面，將物理、化學呢啲學科叫做“格致”，亦即係格物致知嘅簡稱。
According to Lu Xun's self-preface to "The Scream", in the Westernization school at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the disciplines of physics and chemistry were called "Gezhi", which is the abbreviation of Gewu Zhizhi.