United States-China Science Cooperation: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology of the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session

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Page 158 - If you want knowledge, you must take part in the practice of changing reality. If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.
Page 7 - People's Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as the Contracting Parties); Acting in the spirit of the Joint Communique on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between the United States of America and the People's Republic of China...
Page 167 - ... ruled Athens, that Socrates taught, Plato wrote, and Phidias carved his statues. Then myth and fancy began to give way to reality and fact. Hippocrates rationalized medicine so far as it was possible in his time. He endeavored to eliminate all that was mystic, all quackery. He gave origin to the theory of the four humors of the body — blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile. According to him, disease was not due to the visitation of some angered god, but to a disproportionate admixture of...
Page 11 - This Agreement shall enter into force upon signature and shall remain in force for five years. It may be modified or extended by mutual agreement of the Parties.
Page 9 - Scientific and technological information derived from cooperative activities under this Agreement may be made available, unless otherwise agreed in...
Page 35 - The visit was arranged jointly by the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China (CSCPRC...
Page 21 - Exchange and provision of samples, materials, instruments, and components for testing and evaluation; 5. Such other forms of cooperation as are mutually agreed. ARTICLE 3 Specific undertakings, obligations and conditions with respect to the conduct of each activity under Article 2 including responsibility for payment of costs shall be agreed by authorized entities on a case-by-case basis. ARTICLE 4 1. For the purpose of coordinating activities pursuant to this Accord, a Committee on High Energy Physics...
Page 23 - Party shall ensure that staff with necessary skills and competence are selected for attachment to the other Party. 2. Each attachment of staff shall be the subject of an exchange of letters between the participating institutions, covering funding and other matters of interest not otherwise specified in this Accord. 3. Each Party shall provide all necessary assistance to the attached staff (and their families) of the other Party as regards administrative formalities, travel arrangements and accommodations....
Page 24 - Accord or activities carried out hereunder shall be settled by mutual agreement of the Parties. 2. Each Party will accept liability to the extent authorized by its national laws for damages arising from cooperative activities under this Accord. ARTICLE 10 1. This Accord shall enter into force upon signature, and, unless terminated earlier in accordance with paragraph 2 of this Article, shall remain in force for a five-year period. It may be amended or extended by mutual agreement of the Parties....
Page 24 - Agreement may be terminated at any time at the discretion of either Party, upon six (6) months advance notification in writing by the Party seeking to terminate the Agreement.

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