Of Ants and Dinosaurs Quotes

“If the entire history of the Earth were condensed into a single day, one hour would equate to 200 million years, one minute to 3.3 million years and one second to 55,000 years. Life would appear as early as eight or nine o'clock in the morning, but human civilisation would not emerge
until the last tenth of the last second of the day. From the morning that philosophers held the first ever debate on the steps of a temple in Ancient Greece... from the day slaves laid the first foundation stone of the Great Pyramid…… from the minute that Confucius welcomed his first disciple into the candlelit gloom of his thatched hut... right up until the moment you turned the first page of this book, only one tenth of the tick of the clock would have elapsed.”
― Liu Cixin, Of Ants and Dinosaurs

“We should discuss what God looks like, even though we have been over this a thousand times before.’ ‘Yes,’ Lassini said, ‘that is the crux of the conflict and the crisis.’ ‘God undoubtedly resembles a dinosaur,’ said the dinosaur emperor. ‘We have seen God through our faith, and God’s image embodies all dinosaurs.’ ‘God undoubtedly looks like an ant,’ said the ant queen. ‘We have also seen God through our faith, and all ants are reflected in God’s image.”
― Cixin Liu, Of Ants and Dinosaurs

“Kötüye gidiyoruz. Bu gidişle karıncalar inşa ettiği delikte yiyecek arayan küçücük haşereler olacak."
"Bunun neresi kötü ki? Zor zamanlarda cehalet bir lütuftur.”
― Cixin Liu, Of Ants and Dinosaurs