The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

by Liu Cixin

“To accomplish something in theoretical physics requires one to have almost religious faith.

He believed that technological progress was a disease in human society. The explosive development of technology was analogous to the growth of cancer cells, and the results would be identical: the exhaustion of all sources of nourishment, the destruction of organs, and the final death of the host body.

The first priority is to guarantee the existence of the human race and their comfortable life. Everything else is secondary.’

As long as civilization continues to develop, the swallows I want to save and all the other swallows will go extinct. It’s just a matter of time.”