Quotes About Chien

#1. That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth.
[Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.]

Blaise Pascal

#2. She [Chien-Shiung Wu] is a slave driver. She is the image of the militant woman so well known in Chinese literature as either empress or mother.

Emilio G. Segre

#3. Il y aura toujours un chien perdu quelque part qui m'empe" chera d'e" tre heureux. There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me being happy.

Jean Anouilh

#4. [T]he pain was unspeakable, worse than reading the collected works of Edith Wharton.

Kevin Hearne

#5. The Yankees are one of the best teams. I want to stay with them forever.

Chien-Ming Wang

#6. Beta decay was ... like a dear old friend. There would always be a special place in my heart reserved especially for it.

Chien-Shiung Wu

#7. When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.

Ray Bradbury

#8. In Taiwan there's a saying: Raising a child is more important than giving birth. Raising a child is greater.

Chien-Ming Wang

#9. I was so happy when I found out I had been drafted by the Yankees. Growing up in Taiwan, I had heard so much about the Yankees but had never even seen them on TV.

Chien-Ming Wang

#10. Communicating is a bit of a problem. Playing in New York is great but there are times when I feel a long way from home.

Chien-Ming Wang

#11. The democratization of manufacturing means that anyone and eventually everyone can access the means of production, making the question of who should own and control the means of production irrelevant, and capitalism along with it.

Jeremy Rifkin

#12. There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to a sink full of dirty dishes, and that is not going to the lab at all!

Chien-Shiung Wu

#13. I was a senior research scientist that changed the accepted view of the structure of the universe.
I disproved one of the then widely accepted "laws" of physics, 'the conversation of parity', by proving that identical nuclear particles do not always act alike.

Chien-Shiung Wu

#14. I felt I had to work even harder in order to help two sets of parents. Most of my money I send home to let my parents manage. The rest I use for living expenses in America.

Chien-Ming Wang

#15. How easy it would be just to let go, to go willingly into all that wonderful energy.

Adrienne Wilder

#16. In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.

V.S. Naipaul

#17. Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the fullest freedom for activities of private persons and groups who often identify their own interests, essentially selfish, with the general welfare.

Dorothy Thompson

#18. The enemy was not waiting for death, they hit back, concentrating all their fire on the cruiser Never Tell Me The Odds, knocking back that ship's shields and forcing it to break away.

Craig Alanson