Remembrance of Earth's Past Quotes

“You’re one of the calmest people I’ve ever met.”
“The calmness comes from cynicism. There’s not much in the world that can make me care.”
― Cixin Liu, Remembrance of Earth's Past: The Three-Body Trilogy

“Do not answer! Do not answer!! Do not answer!!!”
― Liu Cixin, Remembrance of Earth's Past: The Three-Body Trilogy

“In my experience, any thinking is liable to go off the rails. You should just go to sleep.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem Trilogy: Remembrance of Earth's Past

“The key to a wonderful life is a fascination with something.”
― Liu Cixin, Remembrance of Earth's Past: The Three-Body Trilogy

“The only constant in a world of tremendous change is the swift passage of time. Five years passed like a blur.”
― Liu Cixin, Remembrance of Earth's Past: The Three-Body Trilogy

“Make time for life, or life won’t make time.’ To new life!”
― Liu Cixin, Remembrance of Earth's Past: The Three-Body Trilogy

“Most people would have difficulty explaining how they know two and two make four.”
― Liu Cixin, Remembrance of Earth's Past: The Three-Body Trilogy

“A bottomless abyss exists in every inch.”
― Liu Cixin, Remembrance of Earth's Past: The Three-Body Trilogy

“The use of pesticides had seemed to Ye just a normal, proper—or, at least, neutral—act, but Carson’s book allowed Ye to see that, from Nature’s perspective, their use was indistinguishable from the Cultural Revolution, and equally destructive to our world. If this was so, then how many other acts of humankind that had seemed normal or even righteous were, in reality, evil?”
― Liu Cixin, Remembrance of Earth's Past: The Three-Body Trilogy

“Are you under the impression that the object of everyone else’s love actually exists?”
― Liu Cixin, Remembrance of Earth's Past: The Three-Body Trilogy

“In the cosmos, no matter how fast you are, someone will be faster; no matter how slow you are, someone will be slower.”
― Liu Cixin, Remembrance of Earth's Past: The Three-Body Trilogy

“Tianming was terrified of space. Like everyone who studied spaceflight for a living, he understood space’s sinister nature better than the general public. Hell was not on Earth, but in heaven.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem Trilogy: Remembrance of Earth's Past

“Faced with the omnipresent threat of death and the lure of a different state of existence, religion once again took center stage in social life.”
― Liu Cixin, Remembrance of Earth's Past: The Three-Body Trilogy

“In this cosmic arena, Luo Ji faced not the fancy moves of Chinese sword fighting, resembling dance more than war; nor the flourishes of Western sword fighting, designed to show off the wielder’s skill; but the fatal blows of Japanese kenjutsu. Real Japanese sword fights often ended after a very brief struggle lasting no more than half a second to two seconds. By the time the swords had clashed but once, one side had already fallen in a pool of blood. But before this moment, the opponents stared at each other like statues, sometimes for as long as ten minutes. During this contest, the swordsman’s weapon wasn’t held by the hands, but by his heart. The heart-sword, transformed through the eyes into the gaze, stabbed into the depths of the enemy’s soul. The real winner was determined during this process: In the silence suspended between the two swordsmen, the blades of their spirits parried and stabbed as soundless claps of thunder. Before a single blow was struck, victory, defeat, life, and death had already been decided.”
― Liu Cixin, Remembrance of Earth's Past: The Three-Body Trilogy

“Alain Chenciner and Richard Montgomery, “A remarkable periodic solution of the three-body problem in the case of equal masses,” Annals of Mathematics, 152 (2000), 881–901.”
― Liu Cixin, Remembrance of Earth's Past: The Three-Body Trilogy

“母爱让程心的心碎了，她怕孩子们饿着。”
― Liu Cixin, 读客经典文库：三体全集（套装共3册）【The Three-Body Problem (1-3 Vol. Set) (Chinese Edition)】

“她有知识，但那些知识还没有达到学问的程度去僵化她，只是令她对世界和生活更敏感。”
― Liu Cixin, 读客经典文库：三体全集（套装共3册）【The Three-Body Problem (1-3 Vol. Set) (Chinese Edition)】

“这种危险怎样高估都不为过，失败主义蔓延所造成的后果，绝不仅仅是军心不稳，而是可能导致太空武装力量的全面崩溃。”
― Liu Cixin, 读客经典文库：三体全集（套装共3册）【The Three-Body Problem (1-3 Vol. Set) (Chinese Edition)】

“对于人类这样一个幼稚的文明，更高等的异种文明产生的吸引力几乎是不可抗拒的。”
― Liu Cixin, 读客经典文库：三体全集（套装共3册）【The Three-Body Problem (1-3 Vol. Set) (Chinese Edition)】

“地球三体叛军并非铁板一块，它的内部有着复杂的派别和分支，主要分为两部分：”
― Liu Cixin, 读客经典文库：三体全集（套装共3册）【The Three-Body Problem (1-3 Vol. Set) (Chinese Edition)】

“为了迅速扩大，这个组织几乎是在半公开地活动，他们知道，有一样东西会成为他们的天然保护，那就是政府的保守和贫乏的想象力。”
― Liu Cixin, 读客经典文库：三体全集（套装共3册）【The Three-Body Problem (1-3 Vol. Set) (Chinese Edition)】

“让地球再次成为一个和谐繁荣、没有罪恶的世界。”
― Liu Cixin, 读客经典文库：三体全集（套装共3册）【The Three-Body Problem (1-3 Vol. Set) (Chinese Edition)】

“不管有没有意义，我不能停下来，停下来我会崩溃的。”
― Liu Cixin, 读客经典文库：三体全集（套装共3册）【The Three-Body Problem (1-3 Vol. Set) (Chinese Edition)】

“冷静、毫不动感情地做了。我找到了能够为之献身的事业，付出的代价，不管是自己的还是别人的，都不在乎。”
― Liu Cixin, 读客经典文库：三体全集（套装共3册）【The Three-Body Problem (1-3 Vol. Set) (Chinese Edition)】

“我立刻明白了雷志成的用心：”
― Liu Cixin, 读客经典文库：三体全集（套装共3册）【The Three-Body Problem (1-3 Vol. Set) (Chinese Edition)】

“这时我已经在心里决定了一切。”
― Liu Cixin, 读客经典文库：三体全集（套装共3册）【The Three-Body Problem (1-3 Vol. Set) (Chinese Edition)】

“Hiding the self through a faithful mapping of the universe is the only path into eternity.”
― Liu Cixin, Remembrance of Earth's Past: The Three-Body Trilogy

“the universe as holographic, every point containing the whole, so that the entire universe endured so long as one atom remained.”
― Liu Cixin, Remembrance of Earth's Past: The Three-Body Trilogy

“壳”
― Liu Cixin, 读客经典文库：三体全集（套装共3册）【The Three-Body Problem (1-3 Vol. Set) (Chinese Edition)】

“A soldier who’s only willing to engage in a winnable war is unqualified to be one.”
― Liu Cixin, Remembrance of Earth's Past: The Three-Body Trilogy