Chine Quotes

“There is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese.”

“La religion n'est pas un pont entre Dieu et l'homme, c'est une Grande Muraille de Chine entre eux!”

“Could dump two Chinee down in one of our maria and they would get rich selling rocks to each other while raising twelve kids. Then a Hindu would sell retail stuff he got from them wholesale--below cost at a fat profit. We got along.”

“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.”