Science Quote by Chen Ning Yang

The phrasing has the cool, lab-bench confidence of a physicist trying to pin a messy political event to first causes. “In the final analysis” signals a claim to objectivity, as if history can be reduced like an experiment: isolate variables, identify the force, predict the outcome. That posture matters, because it lets Yang reframe “the incident” away from moral judgment or diplomatic blame and toward a model of accumulated pressure finally releasing.

His causal chain is carefully balanced. The people are “proud,” their reaction “emotional,” their feelings “frustration and anger” rather than ideology or malice. That’s an exculpatory palette: emotion as symptom, not sin. Then he loads the system with two sources of stress that mirror each other: “oppression from without” and “decadent corruption from within.” The symmetry is rhetorical insurance. It rejects the simplistic nationalist story where all harm is foreign, while still centering the humiliations of external power. “Ever increasing” suggests a slow ratcheting effect, a pressure cooker dynamic where the explosion is less a choice than a predictable phase transition.

Contextually, this reads like a scientist-intellectual navigating Cold War-era narratives about China: speaking to outsiders who want a tidy culprit, and to insiders who don’t want internal failure named. The real intent is to make the event legible - and, in doing so, partially forgivable - by translating it into a physics-adjacent story of forces, constraints, and inevitable release.