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Pan Han is a prominent environmentalist whose predictions of various natural catastrophes are so accurate that many believe he came from the future. He believes that human progress is actually a “cancer,” and that humans cannot control or contain the technologies they invent. Therefore, in Pan’s mind, what seems like creation is actually destruction. He is a prominent member of the Adventist faction of the ETO, which hopes to work with the Trisolaran invaders to bring about the death of human civilization. After Pan murders Redemptionist Shen Yufei, the ETO’s leader Ye Wenjie has Pan executed. Pan gives voice to the book’s thematic questions about progress, technology, and humanity’s self-destruction.
Pan Han Quotes in The Three-Body Problem
The The Three-Body Problem quotes below are all either spoken by Pan Han or refer to Pan Han . 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:
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Chapter 21
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“I'm Raphael, from Israel. Three years ago, my fourteen-year-old son died in an accident. I had his kidney donated to a Palestinian girl suffering kidney failure as an expression of my hope that the two peoples could live together in peace. For this ideal, I was willing to give my life. Many, many Israelis and Palestinians sincerely strove toward the same goal by my side. But all this was useless. Our home remained trapped in the quagmire of cycles of vengeance. Eventually, I lost hope in the human race and joined the ETO. Desperation turned me from a pacifist into an extremist.”
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Pan Han Quotes in The Three-Body Problem
The The Three-Body Problem quotes below are all either spoken by Pan Han or refer to Pan Han . 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 21
Quotes
“I'm Raphael, from Israel. Three years ago, my fourteen-year-old son died in an accident. I had his kidney donated to a Palestinian girl suffering kidney failure as an expression of my hope that the two peoples could live together in peace. For this ideal, I was willing to give my life. Many, many Israelis and Palestinians sincerely strove toward the same goal by my side. But all this was useless. Our home remained trapped in the quagmire of cycles of vengeance. Eventually, I lost hope in the human race and joined the ETO. Desperation turned me from a pacifist into an extremist.”
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