"Experiment is the sole interpreter of the..." - Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

“Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.”

“O time! swift devourer of all created things!”

“We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.”

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

“I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.”

“For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment”

“The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was! and what place has the Violet? the Flower de Luce? I cannot decide, but this I know - it is some blue flower.”

“Poem for Liu Ya-tzu I cannot forget how in Canton we drank tea and in Chungking went over our poems when leaves were yellowing. Thirty-one years ago and now we come back at last to the ancient capital Peking. In this season of falling flowers I read your beautiful poems. Be careful not to be torn inside. Open your vision to the world. Don't say that waters of Kumming Lake are too shallow. We can watch fish better here than in the Fuchun River in the south.”

“It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.”