That humans will biologically alter themselves is inevitable, which makes life sciences the most terrifying of the sciences. - Liu Cixin

The nurse picked up one of the umbrellas, which must have been fairly heavy, because she had to carry it over her shoulder. “Is it raining out?” She shook her head. “You think I’m carrying an … umbrella?” she said, unfamiliar with the last word. “If it’s not an umbrella, then what is it?” Luo Ji pointed to the device on her shoulder, imagining that she would say some peculiar name for it. But she didn’t. “It’s my bicycle,” she said.

strongly against nuclear weapons. She knew this was a power that should belong only to the stars.

To work in fundamental theory, one must be stupid.