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The historical facts of the Middle Ages and the Great Ravine prove that a totalitarian system is the greatest barrier to human progress. Starship Earth requires vibrant new ideas and innovation, and this can only be accomplished through the establishment of a society that fully respects freedom and individuality.”

— The Dark Forest by 刘慈欣 (Page 441)

He had been sent to the largest hospital in the city, where expert psychiatrists had been powerless to help him, although they had proposed a novel idea, which Luo Ji and the suburban officials helped carry out. As in Daudet’s “The Siege of Berlin,” or the old Golden-Age film Good Bye, Lenin!, why not fabricate a fictional environment in which humanity had failed?

— The Dark Forest by 刘慈欣 (Page 436)

“I wouldn’t usually bother the girls I liked. I believed in what Goethe said: ‘If I love you, what business is it of yours?’” Xizi laughed.

— The Dark Forest by 刘慈欣 (Page 412)

“Bird flu?” Luo Ji said in alarm. “No. Bed flu. That’s what the media’s calling it. It started going around in a nearby city a week ago. It’s infectious, but symptoms are light. There’s no fever, just a runny nose, and some patients get a sore throat. There’s no need for medication, and it goes away on its own in three days or so after a little bed rest.”

— The Dark Forest by 刘慈欣 (Page 231)

He now understood that the Wallfacers had a mission far weirder than any in history, its logic cold and twisted, yet unyielding as the chains that bound Prometheus. It was an unliftable curse impossible for the Wallfacers to break under their own strength.

— The Dark Forest by 刘慈欣 (Page 116)

One consequence of nuclear technology was that it allowed a country of just a few million people to pose a substantial threat to one with a hundred million, something that at one time had been practically impossible. One of his key points was that the advantages of a large country were only truly advantageous in low-technology eras and would ultimately be weakened by the swift pace of technological progress, which would meanwhile enhance the strategic weight of small countries.

— The Dark Forest by 刘慈欣 (Page 101)

“But, I did indeed invent an ultimate rule.” “Tell me.” “Anything sufficiently weird must be fishy.”

— The Three-Body Problem by 刘慈欣 (Page 132)

But she was a woman. A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.

— The Three-Body Problem by 刘慈欣 (Page 116)