Our list of the best quotes from Netflix sci-fi fantasy television series, developed by David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, and Alexander Woo, inspired by the novel of the same name by Liu Cixin, which is book one from book series Remembrance of Earth’s Past. 3 Body Problem follows a young woman’s whose fateful decision in 1960s China reverberates across space and time to a group of brilliant scientists in the present day. As the laws of nature unravel before their eyes, five former colleagues reunite to confront the greatest threat in humanity’s history. See more about 3 Body Problem on Amazon.
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'It's not easy, is it? Being a person in this f***ed world.' - Tatiana (3 Body Problem) Share on X
Red Guard: [in Mandarin] Are you suggesting God exists?
Ye Zheta: Science has given no evidence either way.
Saul Durand: You told us, “It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.”
Saul Durand: According to the experiments, all of our theories are wrong. All of them. All of the physics of the past sixty years is wrong. Science is broken.
Vera Ye: Do you believe in God?
Saul Durand: Is that what it’s come to? No. I don’t. I accept that this defies all known laws of physics, but I don’t think that’s an argument for God.
Vera Ye: So, what’s left?
'Second law of thermodynamics. Eventually, everything turns to s**t.' - Jin Cheng (3 Body Problem) Share on X
Tatiana: [to Auggie] Tomorrow, at midnight, at exactly midnight, go outside and look up at the sky. Has the universe ever winked at you?
Tatiana: [to Auggie, referring to her countdown] You don’t want it to get to zero. Nothing good ever happens at zero.
'Time is a m*****f***er.' - Ye Wenjie (3 Body Problem) Share on X
Da Shi: Just be glad you’re not a scientist. S**t time to be a scientist.
Saul Durand: I observe the universe winking.
Auggie Salazar: How can it be happening?
Saul Durand: It can’t.
Da Shi: [to Auggie] Don’t you want to know why the stars flickered for you?
Count of the West: Your mission is to solve the riddle of this world.
Colleague: Well, if science can’t explain the blinking stars, why can’t it be God?
Saul Durand: Why would He be so subtle about it?
Saul Durand: But if science tells you that something’s impossible, and it happens anyway, it means one of two things. Either the science is wrong, or it’s a scam.
Tatiana: It’s obscene, isn’t it? How fragile we are.
Will Downing: And some physicists even think that if there are exact carbon copies of your body out there with the exact same quantum processes, then all of your thoughts and feelings are simultaneously arising in an infinite number of elsewheres, an infinite number of times. So, when your consciousness ends in one world, it could continue to exist in another world. In many other worlds.
Thomas Wade: There’s someone behind everything. You just have to dig.
Young Mike Evans: It doesn’t trouble you? The stupidity of the People?
Young Ye Wenjie: It isn’t up to me.
[San-Ti message on the monitor] I am a pacifist in this world. You are lucky that I am the first to receive your message. I am warning you, do not answer. If you respond, we will come. Your world will be conquered. Do not answer.
[Ye’s response to the San-Ti message] Come. We cannot save ourselves. I will help you conquer this world.
Da Shi: Oppenheimer’s mistress died the same way. On her knees, head in a tub. Some think she was murdered. Maybe she just knew the kind of misery the world was about to face.
'Maybe there's more to life than knowing everything.' - Will Downing (3 Body Problem) Share on X
Jack Rooney: You can’t compare this to unexplained cosmic phenomenon. It’s just not the same thing.
Saul Durand: Except it kind of is.
Jack Rooney: I’m definitely not killing myself. My life’s amazing.
Will Downing: It turns out that the cancer’s not inherently evil, right? It’s actually just looking for a place to live. Like we all are, I suppose. With its children. Which is fair enough, but obviously, I said, “That’s not alright with me. I’m using my body at the moment. Can’t just move in.” So anyways, we made a deal. It gets to stay in its own little corner in my pancreas, and I keep all the rest.
Sophon: A lack of fear leads to extinction. If your ancestors had followed the fearless, you would not exist. Humanity must learn to fear again.
Sophon: And when you know your planet is doomed, what is the solution?
Jin Cheng: Flee.
Jack Rooney: Find a new home.
'If one of us survives, we all survive.' - Jin Cheng (3 Body Problem) Share on X
Young Mike Evans: [in Mandarin] In order to fight power, sometimes you have to embrace power.
Jin Cheng: The San-Ti. I think they’re real, and they’re coming.
Jin Cheng: I don’t know how to fight aliens.
Auggie Salazar: Neither do I. But guess what? The people that work for them aren’t aliens. And I’ve been fighting people my whole life. So have you.
Reg: I’m an entrepreneur.
Da Shi: That’s not a job. That’s a word you learned to pronounce.
Thomas Wade: You don’t need to believe in Santa Claus to believe people give gifts on Christmas.
Sophon: So the story, it is a lie about a liar?
Mike Evans: Yeah. Yeah, I suppose it is.
'In nature, nothing exists alone.' - Young Ye Wenjie (3 Body Problem) Share on X
Sophon: A liar is someone whose words are false. A liar cannot be trusted. We cannot coexist with liars. We are afraid of you.
Ye Wenjie: [after it’s revelaed she is head of the San-Ti movement] When I was a young woman, I saw my country torn apart. My family was destroyed. I was sent to hell. I saw human beings cut each other to pieces, destroy each other without a thought, all in the name of progress. And what has changed? We continue to destroy each other and the world around us. We cannot save ourselves. But we are not alone.
Ye Wenjie: You have no idea what they can do. You think you do, but you don’t. They are coming. And there’s nothing you can do to stop them. And when they arrive, you’ll be so grateful.
'Be careful with what you know. That's where most people's troubles begin.' - Thomas Wade (3 Body Problem) Share on X
Da Shi: Usually, when people with more advanced technology encounter people with more primitive technology, doesn’t work out well for the primitives.
Da Shi: So, 15th of August 1977, E.T. phoned home. Ye Wenjie: Our civilization is no longer capable of solving its own problems. Jin Cheng: So we’re going to defeat the aliens? Ye Wenjie: [referring to Evans being Vera’s father] She never met him. The first time he ever looked at her, she was in her coffin. Ye Wenjie: I wish I could show you what the future looks like. Thomas Wade: We need to find out everything we can about these c***s. We’ve got four hundred years to come up with a plan. Auggie Salazar: There are things more than four light-years away that can imprint images on my retinas, so men with guns are not going to protect me. Thomas Wade: [to Ye] You’ve gone from “know” to “believe” in half a minute. Thomas Wade: Shakespeare never worked half this hard for a bit of dialogue. Sophon: It will be four hundred years before we reach you. By the time we do, you will have long surpassed us. You will destroy our fleet, and then come back and destroy our world to make sure we never threaten you again. This is not a conquest. It is a funeral procession. Sophon: We will destroy the science that could defeat us. The answers to your questions will become chaotic and meaningless. The universe will remain a mystery to you forever. In place of truth, we give you miracles. We wrap your world in illusions. We make you see what we want you to see. We are everywhere. Anywhere. Always watching. Learning all your secrets. Uncovering your lies. And we will teach you how to fear again. [San-Ti message sent around the world] You are bugs. Ye Wenjie: “Destroy the old world. Forge the new world.” It’s the only thing I ever agreed with the Red Guards about. Ye Wenjie: They learned the truth about us. We lie. We deceive. There’s a darkness in us that they cannot understand. We’re too dangerous to coexist with. Jin Cheng: [to Ye] Who gave you the right to decide for all of us? You know, Vera always said you were a great physicist, but that’s not how you’ll be remembered. You’re a traitor. Ye Wenjie: How will you be remembered, Jin Cheng? Saul Durand: Aliens won’t be here for four hundred years. It’s a long time to hoard digestive biscuits. Will Downing: It’s much more exciting to imagine a future War of the Worlds than it is to muck around with our current problems. Saul Durand: [to Will, referring to Jin] I’ve never seen anyone love someone like you love her, and you’re just going to take that to the grave? Raj Varma: Some of us have to do the ugly stuff so you can keep your hands clean. Ye Wenjie: [to the San-Ti] You have learned that we are liars. You no longer trust us, so now you are coming to stamp us out. All because of me, the first liar you met. I’m an old woman whose old beliefs have led us down this terrible path. But I still have an idea or two left in me. And centuries from now, there may well be a fair fight. Or no fight at all. Raj Varma: [after Will anonymously buys Jin star DX3906] Jin, you seem to be in denial about how weird this is. Thomas Wade: [referring to going into hibernation] I’m going to wake up for a week every year, fix the f***ups, visit Mum, hire people, fire people, go to Wimbledon, and then go back under. Thomas Wade: Aristotle thought false humility was just as bad as arrogance. Jin Cheng: Soon, we may be faced with a choice. Leave or die. Auggie Salazar: Some days, I think the people getting f***ed over will always get f***ed over. They will always be the last in line. And none of them will get to sail away. Jin Cheng: Why are you staring at me? Ye Wenjie: I failed more people than anyone ever. Ye Wenjie: [punchline of her joke] Never play with God. Ye Wenjie: Humor is a very personal thing. Some people understand it, and some people don’t. Some jokes are so private, they only make sense to two people. But jokes are important. We wouldn’t survive without them. Will Downing: Why would I swear loyalty to us if they could end up being better? Will Downing: I never had many friends. But thanks to you guys, always felt like enough. Saul Durand: Who are “they”? Secretary General Lilian Joseph: Humanity still has secrets. The Sophons have vast power, but they are not all-powerful. They cannot read our minds. This is the basis of what we call the Wallfacer Project. Saul Durand: “Know your enemy.” Didn’t Sun Tzu say that? Secretary General Lilian Joseph: A Wallfacer’s work is carried out in secret. In the solitude of the mind. I don’t know what’s inside your mind. Neither do they. Saul Durand: Remember last year, when we were worried about whatever the f*** we were worried about? I want to go back in time and punch myself in the face. Saul Durand: [referring to Will] He made his choice. And he would’ve done anything for you. God, he loved you. Sorry. I’m not trying to be a d**k, but he did. I hope someone loves me that much someday. Sophon: [to Wade, after the Staircase Project fails] You’re a strong leader. We want you to know there will be a place for you when we arrive. You are part of our plan. We’ll always be with you. Every room you enter, we’ll already be there waiting for you. Whatever we want you to see, you will see. Until the day you die. Saul Durand: Sometimes being depressed is an appropriate reaction to whatever is going on in the world.
Auggie Salazar: Well, of course it sounds stupid when you say it like that.
Da Shi: I thought I was a s**t dad.
Ye Wenjie: I’m sure you are.
Da Shi: Twenty quid it won’t be as glorious as you’re thinking.
Jin Cheng: As someone who fought back.
Jin Cheng: This is weird? This is maybe the twenty-eighth weirdest thing I’ve seen this month. Adjust your weirdness horizons.
Jin Cheng: Aristotle thought rocks fell down instead of up because they loved the ground.
Auggie Salazar: Four hundred years is soon?
Jin Cheng: It’s the blink of an eye.
Will Downing: I’m not. I’m seeing you. Sometimes, when you’re really high, you see people. Or maybe it’s when you’re dying. But I see you. And I love you. And it’s alright.
Saul Durand: How can you live with it?
Ye Wenjie: I won’t have to much longer.
Da Shi: Now, that’s the question, right?
Da Shi: I don’t know. I’m from Manchester.
Saul Durand: I do not want this job.
Secretary General Lilian Joseph: I don’t blame you. It’s a terrible job.
Jin Cheng: Maybe someone already does.
Da Shi: F***ing hell. Lost a few battles and now you’ve given up the war?
Da Shi: People hate bugs. Been trying to get rid of them forever. Spray pesticides from planes. We put poison in the ground. We try and sterilize them. We swat them, zap them, step on them. Look around. They’re not going anywhere. For the bugs. Let’s get back. We’ve got work to do.