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

by Liu Cixin

He couldn’t see them, but he could feel their presence like iron sensing the pull of a nearby magnet.

nice analogy

“In China, any idea that dared to take flight would only crash back to the ground. The gravity of reality is too strong.”

fact

“More than three hundred years! A dozen generations. When this tree was but a shrub, it was still the Ming Dynasty. During all these years, can you imagine how many storms it had weathered, how many events it had witnessed? But in a few minutes you cut it down. You really felt nothing?”

something to think about

Is it possible that the relationship between humanity and evil is similar to the relationship between the ocean and an iceberg floating on its surface? Both the ocean and the iceberg are made of the same material. That the iceberg seems separate is only because it is in a different form. In reality, it is but a part of the vast ocean.… It was impossible to expect a moral awakening from humankind itself, just like it was impossible to expect humans to lift off the earth by pulling up on their own hair. To achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race.