Quotes by Chen-Ning Yang - Page 1

The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.
Chen-Ning Yang / Physicist
China
Gdp
Should
Western
Western Culture
Brought
Debated
How Much
Question
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Einstein's theory of General Relativity has a mathematical structure very similar to Yang-Mills theory.
Chen-Ning Yang / Physicist
Mills
Structure
Yang
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The application of group theory to physics became one of the main branches of physics that I specialized in.
Chen-Ning Yang / Physicist
Application
Branches
Physics
Specialized
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There are only two kinds of math books: Those you cannot read beyond the first sentence, and those you cannot read beyond the first page.
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Book
Math
Two
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In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.
Chen-Ning Yang / Physicist
China
Conflict
Expanding
Half
Impact
Influence
Severe
Western
Western Culture
Economic System
Last Century
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The three discrete invariances - reflection invariance, charge conjugation invariance, and time reversal invariance - are connected by an important theorem called the CPT theorem.
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Discrete
Reflection
Reversal
Charge
Theorem
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I was later to receive an excellent first two years' graduate education in the same University and then again was able to pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund.
Chen-Ning Yang / Physicist
Education
Excellent
Fellowship
Fund
Pursue
Two
University
Years
Graduate
Receive
Studies
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As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict.
Chen-Ning Yang / Physicist
Chinese
Conflict
Harmony
Heavy
Western
Cultures
Product
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The existence of symmetry laws is in full accordance with our daily experience. The simplest of these symmetries, the isotropy and homogeneity of space, are concepts that date back to the early history of human thought.
Chen-Ning Yang / Physicist
Concepts
Daily Experience
Existence
Homogeneity
Human Thought
Simplest
Symmetry
Accordance
Date
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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 / Physicist
Science
Chinese
Civilization
Devoted
Heritage
Human Civilization
Modern Science
Proud
Western
Background
Dedicate
Origin
Shall
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There's a real difference of what one believed was one's chief responsibility between American professors and Chinese professors. This was vividly revealed to me when I compared what I could learn in Chicago and what I could learn in China.
Chen-Ning Yang / Physicist
Chicago
Chinese
Professors
Chief
Real Difference
Revealed
Vividly
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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 / Physicist
Anger
Analysis
China
Emotional
Frustration
Oppression
Decadent
Incident
Subject
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I think in the sciences there is still the general belief that America is still tops. For America to lose that, I think, would be very bad, not just speaking as a scientist myself. I think it would be very bad for the morale of the whole country.
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Morale
Sciences
Tops
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Qinghua was first established as a preparatory school in 1911. In 1928, it became a university. In 1929, my father joined Qinghua as a professor, so that was also the year that I moved to that campus because my father brought the whole family along.
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Campus
Established
Joined
Preparatory
Professor
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The law of right-left symmetry was used in classical physics but was not of any great practical importance there. One reason for this derives from the fact that right-left symmetry is a discrete symmetry, unlike rotational symmetry, which is continuous.
Chen-Ning Yang / Physicist
Discrete
Importance
Physics
Symmetry
Classical
Continuous
Derives
Unlike
Practical
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The strongest interactions are the nuclear interactions, which include the forces that bind nuclei together and the interaction between the nuclei and the z mesons. It also includes the interactions that give rise to the observed strange-particle production.
Chen-Ning Yang / Physicist
Interaction
Nuclear
Rise
Bind
Observed
Forces
Include
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Science has become something that everybody knows he has to pay attention to, but not everybody is a believer. So I don't think we should equate science with religion. But, that science is progressively playing a more and more important part in the life of every individual is obvious.
Chen-Ning Yang / Physicist
Religion
Science
Attention
Believer
Individual
Obvious
Pay
Pay Attention
Equate
Important Part
More And More
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I think America is a new country. It is a young culture. The spirit of the opening of the West is still with the Americans. It's a very practical and individual-based kind of philosophy that had worked in America for a long time, had been very successful. And the spirit is very much there.
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Opening
Time Culture Long
Practical
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A graduate student who is still learning courses is not really taking a maximum advantage of a research university's offerings. He should already be finished with course-taking, as he would then be able to shape his own taste about what is a good subject for research work in the graduate school.
Chen-Ning Yang / Physicist
Advantage
Courses
Finished
Graduate School
Maximum
Taste
Work Good Learning
Student
Graduate
The Graduate
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Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and the beautiful perfection of the mathematical reasoning involved and contrast it with the complex and far-reaching physical consequences, a deep sense of respect for the power of the symmetry laws never fails to develop.
Chen-Ning Yang / Physicist
Nature
Science
Beautiful
Simple
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In 1975, ... [speaking with Shiing Shen Chern], I told him I had finally learned ... the beauty of fiber-bundle theory and the profound Chern-Weil theorem. I said I found it amazing that gauge fields are exactly connections on fiber bundles, which the mathematicians developed without reference to the physical world. I added, "this is both thrilling and puzzling, since you mathematicians dreamed up these concepts out of nowhere." He immediately protested: "No, no. These concepts were not dreamed up. They were natural and real."
Chen-Ning Yang / Physicist
Science
Beautiful
Real
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