Once a respected physics professor at Beijing’s Tsinghua University, by the dawn of the Cultural Revolution, Ye Zhetai has become a pariah for his supposedly anti-communist beliefs. Though his wife, Shao Lin, and younger daughter Ye Wenxue turn against him, his elder daughter Ye Wenjie remains loyal. Ye Zhetai is particularly notable for his conviction that “truth emerges from experiences.” He therefore embodies the novel’s thematic suggestion that theory is meaningless unless it is informed by life.
Ye Zhetai Quotes in The Three-Body Problem
The The Three-Body Problem quotes below are all either spoken by Ye Zhetai or refer to Ye Zhetai . 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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Ye Zhetai Quotes in The Three-Body Problem
The The Three-Body Problem quotes below are all either spoken by Ye Zhetai or refer to Ye Zhetai . 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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