Lin Xuanzheng: April 2008

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Charles Darwin :

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

Florence Nightingale :

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm