229 Quotes by Liu Cixin

Whatever they were dealing with was too important for them to care about keeping up appearances.

It’s a wonder to be alive. If you don’t understand that, how can you search for anything deeper?

The fundamental axiom of economics is the human mercenary instinct. Without.

English, formerly the most widely used language, and Chinese, spoken by the largest population, had blended with each other without distinction to become the world’s most powerful language. Luo Ji learned later that the other languages of the world were undergoing the same fusion.

We’ll send only a brain,” he said.

Exponentials are the devils of mathematics.

But burning was their fate; they were the generation meant to be consumed by fire.

Unlike other human religions, they worshipped something that truly existed. Also unlike other human religions, it was the Lord who was in crisis, and the duty of salvation fell on the shoulders of the believer.

I want to tell all those who believe in God that I am not the Chosen One. I also want to tell all the atheists that I am not a history-maker. I am but an ordinary person. Unfortunately, I have not been able to walk the ordinary person’s path. My path is, in reality, the journey of a civilization.