229 Quotes by Liu Cixin

The universal laws of physics are the most terrifying weapons, and also the most effective defenses.

In one remote corner of the vast sea of information on the Internet, there was a remote corner, and in a remote corner of that remote corner, and then in a remote corner of a remote corner of a remote corner of that remote corner – that is, in the very depths of the most remote corner of all – a virtual world came back to life.

Life needed smoothness, but it also needed direction. One could not always be returning to the point of origin.

There are no permanent enemies or comrades, only permanent duty.

To love humanity, you must start by loving individual persons, by fulfilling your responsibility to those you love.

Everything was deathly quiet. The eyes were the most terrifying: the eyes of dinosaurus; the eyes of trilobites and ants; the eyes of birds and butterflies; the eyes of bacteria... The humans alone possessed one hundred billion pairs of eyes, equal to the number of stars in the Milky Way, Among them were the eyes of ordinary men and women, and the eyes of Da Vinci, Shakespeare, and Einstein.

The most conspicuous of the group was Zhu Hanyang, a software magnate whose Orient 3000 Operating System was replacing the outdated Microsoft Windows system all across the globe.

A civilization that cannot see the sun and stars will be without religion. There.

The more transparent something was, the more mysterious it seemed. The universe itself was transparent; as long as you were sufficiently sharp-eyed, you could see as far as you liked. But the farther you looked, the more mysterious it became.