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.

the quantum constant

Wang had always thought that his photographs lacked some kind of soul. Now he understood that they were missing her.

Surprisingly, it made the entire scene come alive, as though the world in the photograph recognized that tiny figure and responded to it, as though the whole scene existed for her.

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