The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Book 2)

The turbulence was purposeless, but in huge quantities of purposeless turbulence, purpose took shape.

unprecedented

Survival is the primary need of civilization. Second: Civilization continuously grows and expands, but the total matter in the universe remains constant.”

For the majority of people, what they love exists only in the imagination. The object of their love is not the man or woman of reality, but what he or she is like in their imagination. The person in reality is just a template used for the creation of this dream lover.

The past was like a handful of sand you thought you were squeezing tightly, but which had already run out through the cracks between your fingers. Memory was a river that had run dry long ago, leaving only scattered gravel in a lifeless riverbed. He had lived life always looking out for the next thing, and whenever he had gained, he had also lost,

Mahan’s theory of sea power

“Hiding the self through a faithful mapping of the universe is the only path into eternity.”

seem to remember a line Yang Wen-li said in Legend of the Galactic Heroes:*11 ‘In

insouciant