Quote of the day
It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.
Arthur Waley

Born: August 19, 1889
Died: June 27, 1966 (aged 76)
Bio: Arthur David Waley was an English Orientalist and sinologist who achieved both popular and scholarly acclaim for his translations of Chinese and Japanese poetry.
Known for:
- Monkey (1942)
- Three ways of thought in ancient China (1939)
- The No Plays of Japan (1921)
- The Secret History of the Mongols
- More Translations from the Chinese (1919)







