null quoted The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu (Remembrance of Earth's Past)
This is the second novel in the "Remembrance of Earth’s Past" near-future trilogy. Written by …
Research is a process of leaping forward, and qualitative change is only produced by long-term quantitative accumulation. Breakthroughs in theory and technology are mostly achieved in concentrated bursts.…
— The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu (Remembrance of Earth's Past) (Page 277)