Ball Lightning

by Liu Cixin

woman in uniform and the sword

You should learn to look at life from the perspective of the ultimate law of the universe.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both … I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

“If humanity lived in a frictionless world, Newton’s Three Laws might have been discovered even earlier by someone even more ordinary.

“If you are really able to prove that a super-observer is watching our world, then human activity becomes very indiscreet.… You could say human society is in a quantum state, and a super-observer will force it to collapse to a state of reason again.”