I had an interesting meeting over curry puffs and strawberry cheesecake with one of China's top sculptors today Prof Wu Weishan and Nobel Laureates Prof C N Yang and Prof Kenneth Wilson, both physicists. They were introduced to me by Dr KK Phua of World Scientific. For Prof Wu, sculpture is like calligraphy. Prof Yang knows Singapore well and talked about how Singapore was able to increase its per capita income a hundred fold in the last 40 years. He likes the atmosphere at NTU. Prof Wilson has a deep interest in education and would like to see a Davos-type forum on innovation held in Singapore. I promised to help in whatever way we could.
If like the Italian city-states we are able to attract such brilliant minds to Singapore and make them feel at home here, our future will be very bright.
George Yeo
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