The Three-Body Problem

If killing you would solve the problem, you’d all be dead by now. But the most effective technique remains disrupting your thoughts.

the first cry that could be heard in space from civilization on Earth was already spreading out from the sun to the universe at the speed of light. A star-powered radio wave, like a majestic tide, had already crossed the orbit of Jupiter.

Based on these two successes, Pan’s opinions on social issues had grown more and more influential. 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. He advocated abolishing crude technologies such as fossil fuels and nuclear energy and keeping gentler technologies such as solar power and small-scale hydroelectric power. He believed in the gradual de-urbanization of modern metropolises by distributing the population more evenly in self-sufficient small towns and villages. Relying on the gentler technologies, he would build a new agricultural society.

achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race.

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.…

many other acts of humankind that had seemed normal or even righteous were, in reality,

Silent Spring, she read on the cover, by Rachel Carson.

old scars and new wounds

Time began with the singularity? So what was there before the singularity?”

Should philosophy guide experiments, or should experiments guide philosophy?”