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Yang Dong
Though he is a respected physicist in his own right, Ding is known to most of the characters as Yang Dong’s boyfriend. Ding had hoped to settle down with Yang Dong, but she was always more interested in theory than in domestic life. After Yang’s death, Ding befriends Wang Miao, and the two men work together to balance abstract, scientific thinking with meaningful everyday experience.
Ding Yi Quotes in The Three-Body Problem
The The Three-Body Problem quotes below are all either spoken by Ding Yi or refer to Ding Yi . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 30
Quotes
If I tell you more, you really won't be able to sleep. Forget it. What's the point of worrying? We should learn to be as philosophical as Wei Cheng and Shi Qiang. Just do the best within your responsibility. Let's go drinking and then go back to sleep like good bugs.
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Chapter 34
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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 so proudly live between the heavens and the earth, and their numbers have not diminished from the time before the appearance of the humans.
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Ding Yi Quotes in The Three-Body Problem
The The Three-Body Problem quotes below are all either spoken by Ding Yi or refer to Ding Yi . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 30
Quotes
If I tell you more, you really won't be able to sleep. Forget it. What's the point of worrying? We should learn to be as philosophical as Wei Cheng and Shi Qiang. Just do the best within your responsibility. Let's go drinking and then go back to sleep like good bugs.
Related Characters:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 34
Quotes
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 so proudly live between the heavens and the earth, and their numbers have not diminished from the time before the appearance of the humans.
