Chen Xin

“The moral and intellectual failure of Marxism has left us with no alternative to heroic materialism, and that isn't enough.”
― Kenneth Clark

“Herein lies the attractiveness of ethnic agitation: its ease and accessibility. The Other is visible, everyone can recognize and remember his image. One doesn’t have to read books, think, discuss: it is enough just to look.”
― Ryszard Kapuściński, The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life

“You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it”
― James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

“It was harder to work out that there was a question than to think of the answer.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene