“I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and bac...” — Chen-Ning Yang Quote

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.”

“I come from a very different background, in terms of mindset because we were brought up very different from conventional route but still had the same values and ethics which helped us to be more rooted and we had so many family friends also who had so many different mindset and upbringing to us.”

“I know my background was defense, but I'm not a defensive coach who wants to win 9-7 every week.”