“Ten minutes later, the army had made a thirty-six kilometer square computer motherboard.” — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
In my youth, when I tried to plan for the future, I had wished to be an engineer so I could get… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“He believed that technological progress was a disease in human society. The explosive development of technology was analogous to the growth of… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“In the universe, an important mark of a civilization’s technological advancement is its ability to control and make use of micro dimensions.… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“This is Galileo,” said Aristotle. “He advocates understanding the world through observation and experiment. He is an unimaginative thinker, but his results demand our… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“She could no longer feel grief. She was now like a Geiger counter that had been subjected to too much radiation, no longer capable… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“As he left the hospital, he wasn’t scared. The only emotion he felt was loneliness. His alienation had been building up, but had been… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
I am a conventional science fiction author. But that said, once your work is published, it no longer belongs to you. It belongs to… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“None of these is in line with your original ideal of using the alien civilization as a way to reform humanity. YE: I started… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“This was characteristic of ultimate deterrence: The deterrer and the deteree shared the same terror of deterrence itself.” — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction was a horrible event. Dinosaurs and many other animals and plants were killed. — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“Suppose two thousand years ago, or even earlier, humanity learned that an alien invasion fleet would arrive a few thousand years later. What would… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
The earth's crust is very thin but the planet can act as a spaceship if a force or energy powerful enough was exerted on… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“Indeed, it is the nature of intelligent life to climb mountains. They all want to stand on ever higher ground to gaze ever farther… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“I’ve always felt that the greatest and most beautiful stories in the history of humanity were not sung by wandering bards or written by… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“Are you under the impression that the object of everyone else’s love actually exists?” — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
My own family went through its own difficulties in the Cultural Revolution, perhaps in a milder form than many other people. — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
