The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)

by Liu Cixin

“It’s a wonder to be alive. If you don’t understand that, how can you search for anything deeper?”

For the majority of people, what they love exists only in the imagination. The object of their love is not the man or woman of reality, but what he or she is like in their imagination. The person in reality is just a template used for the creation of this dream lover. Eventually, they find out the differences between their dream lover and the template. If they can get used to those differences, then they can be together. If not, they split up. It’s as simple as that. You differ from the majority in one respect: You didn’t need a template.”

The outcome of natural biological evolution requires at least twenty thousand years to manifest itself, but human civilization has just five thousand years of history, and modern technological civilization just two hundred. That means that the study of modern science today is being done by the brain of primitive man.”

He was a man destined to fly high and fly far.

Don’t dismiss simplicity. Simple means solid.

What was the human world like in the eyes of the mountains? Perhaps just something they saw on a leisurely afternoon.