Quote of the day
It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
Fang Lizhi
Born: February 12, 1936
Died: April 6, 2012 (aged 76)
Bio: Fang Lizhi was a Chinese astrophysicist, vice-president of the University of Science and Technology of China, and activist whose liberal ideas inspired the pro-democracy student movement of 1986 87 and, finally, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.







