Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

by Liu Cixin

She could choose a career that had nothing to do with physics, get married, have children, and live a peaceful, contented life like countless others. Of course, for her, such a life would be only half a life.

“I don’t know enough about the big bang to comment, but you’re wrong about the environment on Earth. The Earth gave birth to life, but life also changed the Earth. The current environment on our planet is the result of interactions between the two.”

As long as you give it enough time, life is stronger than metal and stone, more powerful than typhoons and volcanoes.”

“Thus, the Earth that we live on now is a home constructed by life for itself. It has nothing to do with God.”

Weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival, but arrogance is.

All the simple, clear, wordless instructions gave her a strange feeling, which AA voiced. “These things … I don’t think they’re intended for humans.”

This obsession with home and land, this permanent adolescence where you’re no longer children but are afraid to leave home—this is the fundamental reason your race was annihilated. I am sorry if I’ve offended you, but it’s the truth.