Common people Quote by Liu Cixin

“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

“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

“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

“Yes. They spread out to cover the entire solar system. We’re trapped”

— Liu Cixin

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

“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

“This was characteristic of ultimate deterrence: The deterrer and the deteree shared the same terror of deterrence itself.”

— Liu Cixin

The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction was a horrible event. Dinosaurs and many other animals and plants were killed.

— Liu Cixin

“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

“Make time for life, or life won’t make time.”

— Liu Cixin

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

“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