229 Quotes by Liu Cixin

Weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival, but arrogance is.

Life reached an evolutionary milestone when it climbed onto land from the ocean, but those first fish that climbed onto land ceased to be fish.

She was like a star, always so distant. Even the light she shone on me was always cold.

I need a dual-vector foil for cleansing.

But from the perspective of aesthetics, I must be right and the universe must be wrong.

In this forest, hell is other people. An eternal threat that any life that exposes its own existence will be swiftly wiped out. This is the picture of cosmic civilization. It’s the explanation for the Fermi Paradox.

At the end, an adult and a child stand in front of the grave of a Red Guard who had died during the faction civil wars. The child asks the adult, ‘Are they heroes?’ The adult says no. The child asks, ‘Are they enemies?’ The adult again says no. The child asks, ‘Then who are they?’ The adult says, ‘History.

But one always awoke from a dream, just like the sun – which, though it would rise again, brought no fresh hope.

I'm absolutely positive about human survival. We will continue to develop our civilisation and expand not just on Earth, but also across the solar system, the galaxy, even the entire universe.