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) Click To Tweet
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) Click To Tweet
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) Click To Tweet
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) Click To Tweet
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) Click To Tweet
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) Click To Tweet
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) Click To Tweet
Da Shi: Usually, when people with more advanced technology encounter people with more primitive technology, doesn’t work out well for the primitives.