„It is impossible to have patience with their ignorance because of their over-weening self- conceit. It is passable in Africa, but not in these men...

„Aber die Quantenmechanik ernst zu nehmen, über ihre Bedeutung nachzudenken, ist eine geradezu psychodelische Erfahrung: Sie verlangt von uns auf die eine oder andere Weise,...

„Sie hat sich nie geirrt. Sie bildet das schlagende Herz der heutigen Wissenschaft. Und doch bleibt sie zutiefst rätselhaft, Irgendwie beunruhigend.“

„At that time, though missionaries had been settled at Wan for some years and had been able to rent this beautiful house, there was not...

„(…) as no carpenter would work during New Year’s holidays.“

Trackers at work

„If the Upper Yangtze junks number from seven to eight thousand the men employed on them at the lowest estimate must be a quarter of...

„A noisy and dirty rabble follows a stranger; mud is thrown (…) bad names are bandied freely (…)“

„In them hundreds of people eat, sleep, bargain, gamble, cook, spin and quarrel, while they are the sculleries, sinks and sewers of not inconsiderable portion...