Author
David Ang KH is a biomedical scientist with a keen interest in philosophy. He received a unique undergraduate education of a Double Degree Program in Biomedical Sciences and Traditional Chinese Medicine (Nanyang Technological University & Beijing University of Chinese Medicine) and subsequent PhD & postdoctoral training in Medical Sciences at the University of Oxford and Boston Children’s Hospital (Harvard Medical School). Collectively, this has enabled David to be exposed to fresh, opposing and rather fascinating perspectives which have set him on the path of a personal inquiry of the Truth. David is an advocate of ancient wisdom in the practice of Science, Medicine and everyday life. This blog serves as a platform for his sharing of concepts and perspectives that could spark some thoughts in the readers.
Do not look with contempt, then, on such of your old books as seem to be mere treasures of unwisdom. The debris of broken systems and exploded dogmas form a great mound- a Monte Testaccio of the shards and remnants of old vessels which once held human beliefs. If you take the trouble to climb to the top of it, you will widen your horizon, and in these days of specialized knowledge, your horizon is not likely to be any too wide.
Oliver Wendall Holmes Sr., Physician & Writer (1809 – 1894)