🎙️ 20 Liu Cixin Quotes Every Three-Body Fan Should Remember

🎙️ 20 Liu Cixin Quotes

1. "Sci-fi is not prediction. It's a stage built with scientific elements to perform the drama of human nature."

2. "Imagination is more important than knowledge, because it can transcend the limits of time and space." (2018 Clarke Award speech)

3. "Good sci-fi should make readers feel different when they look at stars after finishing the last page."

4. "The deepest reason for Three-Body's success is not my writing — it's the great era pushing forward."

5. "What readers find in Three-Body is often something I didn't write."

6. "Three-Body exhausted everything I had. I need new积累."

7. "If AI surpasses humans, I will be very happy."

8. "Humanity's greatest danger is not being destroyed by aliens — but by our own choices."

9. "Ours may be the last generation living under the assumption that 'humans are the smartest things on Earth.'"

10. "The silence of the universe is itself a sound."

11. "Looking at the stars is humanity's oldest gesture. But we still don't know what's behind them."

12. "I never thought Three-Body would succeed. I just felt this idea had to be written."

13. "A sci-fi writer's job is to ask questions, not to give answers."

14. "The essence of creation is — you have something to say, and you can't rest until you've said it."

15. "At heart, I'm still an engineer."

16. "Those years at Niangziguan Power Plant were the happiest of my life."

17. "I'm not a genius. I just write a lot."

18. "The future isn't predicted — it's created."

19. "We may never know the universe's ultimate truth. But that doesn't mean we should stop exploring."

Which one moves you most?