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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The application of group theory to physics became one of the main branches of physics that I specialized in. Chen-Ning Yang Read Quote
The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China. Chen-Ning Yang Read Quote
The three discrete invariances – reflection invariance, charge conjugation invariance, and time reversal invariance – are connected by an important theorem called the CPT theorem. Chen-Ning Yang Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
