My Understanding on Research Methodologies:
 
  • The Spirit of Scientific Research and Scientific Researchers -- A Note on My Visit to Vrije University Amsterdam [1],[2],[3], Blog post, Yi Zeng, 2009.
  • Some Criterion and Spirits for Scientific Research. Yi Zeng. Science and Technology Review(a Chinese Journal), vol 27, page 96, 2009 [dowload from the journal website].

 
Proverbs:
 

" You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way...people look at reality, then you can change it. "

 

----James Baldwin
 
My Understanding: This proverb tells us that writing can change people's view of the world. No matter how much we don't like it, we should not ignore the power of writing. Plus, we should also notice that our writing may have effect on others' views. So we should be more strict to ourselves when we write.
 

" Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. "

---- Richard P. Feynman
 
My Understanding: When I talked to a logician from India how to do scientific research, he presented me this proverb, which shows that: we should not just focus on producing the solution of a scientific problem, but enjoy the way and the process of finding things out.