#origin

I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work. ↗

— Chen Ning Yang

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In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within. ↗

— Chen Ning Yang

#anger #been #china #corruption #decadent

Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#course #evolution #human #human mind #mind

The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches. ↗

— Felix Klein

#departs #developing #diverse #earlier #into

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#genius #mark #new #opening #originality

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#discovery #more #obvious #original #seems

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#forgetting #know #moment #originality #prerequisite

Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron. ↗

— Walter Kohn

#i #nuclear #nuclear physics #originally #particular

The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality. ↗

— Alexis Korner

#bar #been #blues #british #emotional

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words. ↗

— Alfred Korzybski

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