Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 7 quotes that I liked and saved while reading The Three-Body Problem book by Cixin Liu. I hope you will like them too.
By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
The Three-Body Problem Quotes
- In China, any idea that dared to take flight would only crash back to the ground. The gravity of reality is too strong.
- A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.
- I’m a simple man without a lot of complicated twists and turns. Look down my throat and you can see out my ass. Naturally, I don’t know how to make my bosses like me.
- Anything sufficiently weird must be fishy.
- By the time you’re my age, you’ll realize that everything you once thought mattered so much turns out to mean very little.
- These are the rules of the game of civilization: The first priority is to guarantee the existence of the human race and their comfortable life. Everything else is secondary.
- Look at them, the bugs. Humans have used everything in their power to extinguish them: every kind of poison, aerial sprays, introducing and cultivating their natural predators, searching for and destroying their eggs, using genetic modification to sterilize them, burning with fire, drowning with water. Every family has bug spray, every desk has a flyswatter under it … this long war has been going on for the entire history of human civilization. But the outcome is still in doubt. The bugs have not been eliminated. They still proudly live between the heavens and the earth, and their numbers have not diminished from the time before the appearance of the humans.