Shao Lin, herself a prominent physicist, is also Ye Zhetai’s wife and the mother of Ye Wenjie and Ye Wenxue. Unlike her husband, Shao is capable of bending her scientific beliefs to conform to the political standards of the day. Over and over again, she chooses personal opportunism over ideological purity or community ties, as can be seen when she joins her husband’s torturers or forbids Ye Wenjie to ever talk about their shared traumatic past.
Shao Lin Quotes in The Three-Body Problem
The The Three-Body Problem quotes below are all either spoken by Shao Lin or refer to Shao Lin . 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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Should philosophy guide experiments or should experiments guide philosophy? […] Truth emerges from experience.
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Shao Lin Quotes in The Three-Body Problem
The The Three-Body Problem quotes below are all either spoken by Shao Lin or refer to Shao Lin . 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 1
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Should philosophy guide experiments or should experiments guide philosophy? […] Truth emerges from experience.
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