Cheng points out that, in former years, academics such as Chiang Meng-ling and Chen Chih-fan, who combined scientific education with a passion for the humanities, were what they based their own expectations on.
鄭水萍指出，當年像蔣夢麟、陳之藩這些兼具科學素養、及人文關懷的學者，是他們推崇的對象。