In his mind, the city, as it awoke from its slumber, seemed to be built on quicksand. The stability was illusory. - Liu Cixin

Science and technology were the only keys to opening the door to the future, and people approached science with the faith and sincerity of elementary school students.

To work in fundamental theory, one must be stupid.

Look at them, the bugs. Humans have used everything in their power to extinguish them: every kind of poison, aerial sprays, introducing and cultivating their natural predators, searching for and destroying their eggs, using genetic modification to sterilize them, burning with fire, drowning with water. Every family has bug spray, every desk has a flyswatter under it… this long war has been going on for the entire history of human civilization. But the outcome is still in doubt. The bugs have not been eliminated. They still proudly live between the heavens and the earth, and their numbers have not diminished from the time before the appearance of the humans. The Trisolarans who deemed the humans bugs seemed to have forgotten one fact: The bugs have never been truly defeated.