229 Quotes by Liu Cixin

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    C'était comme si cette bulle était consciente du caractère éphémère de son existence et qu'elle interprétait pour le monde les innombrables rêves et légendes qui habitaient ses souvenirs.

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    These days, they use so much pesticide that when I feed the children, I have to soak the vegetables for at least two hours.

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    When they passed a maintenance site in the road bed, Einstein stopped next to a worker who was smashing stones and silently observed this boy with torn clothes and dirty face and hands. He asked your father how much the boy earned each day. After asking the boy, he told Einstein: five cents.

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    The explosive development of technology was analogous to the grown of cancer cells, and the results would be identical: the exhaustion of all sources of nourishment, the destruction of organs, and the final death of the host body. He advocated abolishing crude technologies such as fossil fuels and nuclear energy and keeping gentler technologies such as solar power and small-scale hydroelectric power.

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    Science and technology were the only keys to opening the door to the future, and people approached science with the faith and sincerity of elementary school students.

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    Take those frauds who practice pseudoscience - do you know who they're most afraid of?""Scientists, of course.""No. Many of the best scientists can be fooled by pseudoscience and sometimes devote their lives to it. But pseudoscience is afraid of one particular type of people who are very hard to fool: stage magicians. In fact, many pseudoscience hoaxes were exposed by stage magicians.

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    As soon as Wang left the Research Center building, the nightmarelike feeling caught up to him. He felt like the starry sky was a magnifying glass that covered the world, and he was a tiny insect below the lens with nowhere to hide.

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