Aanand Joshi

“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.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“There are no permanent enemies or comrades, only permanent duty.”
― Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest

“Should philosophy guide experiments, or should experiments guide philosophy?”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“Staying alive is not enough to guarantee survival. Development is the best way to ensure survival.”
― Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest