"The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China."

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Source : Chen Ning Yang (2005). “Selected Papers, 1945-1980, with Commentary”, p.247, World Scientific

Chen-Ning Yang

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“The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.”
“All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.”
“Religious ideas and practices take root not because they are promoted by forceful theologians, nor because they can be shown to have a sound historical or rational basis, but because they are found in practice to give the faithful a sense of sacred transcendence.”
“A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.”

Source : Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1866). “Principles of Education, Drawn from Nature and Revelation, and Applied to Female Education in the Upper Classes”, p.397
“All the old fellows stole our best ideas.”
“I've been lucky. I've had this history of having an appeal to more than one type of audience.”
“I didn't change the world.”
“Sometimes, challenges and struggles are exactly what we need in our lives...May you welcome every effort, every struggle, and every challenge...May you open your wings and fly!”

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