229 Quotes by Liu Cixin

Perhaps the outside world really was something akin to a quantum state, and did not exist unless he observed it.

What is civilization? Civilization is devouring, ceaselessly eating, endlessly expanding; everything else comes second.

Luckily, the forest was so dense that the two escaped without injury, though one of the men peed in his pants.

This is the difference between an ordinary scribe and a literary writer. The highest level of literary creation is when the characters in a novel possess life in the mind of the writer. The writer is unable to control them, and might not even be able to predict the next action they will take. We can only follow them in wonder to observe and record the minute details of their lives like a voyeur.

Are you under the impression that the object of everyone else’s love actually exists?

Once we know where we are, then the world becomes as narrow as a map. When we don’t know, the world feels unlimited.

Science fiction is a literature that belongs to all humankind.

Dr. Ding, would you please show Yang Dong’s note to Professor Wang?

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 playwrights and novelists, but told by science. The stories of science are far more magnificent, grand, involved, profound, thrilling, strange, terrifying, mysterious, and even emotional, compared to the stories told by literature. Only, these wonderful stories are locked in cold equations that most do not know how to read.