The Three-Body Problem

Text in black are quotes; text in green are my notes. I sometimes write in Spanish.

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

• 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. #

• 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. #

• Everyone likes to reminisce, but no one wants to listen, and everyone feels annoyed when someone else tells a story. #

• No, emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is a type of existence. You must use this existential emptiness to fill yourself. #