The future, it seemed, was turning out to be one damn thing after another.
Stephen Baxter Quotes
born 1957 England
Stephen Baxter (born November 13, 1957) is a British science fiction writer.
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- Educators
- Novelists
- Science fiction authors
- Short story writers
111 quotes
The universe aged: indifferent, harsh, hostile and ultimately lethal.
Origin (2001)
A pinch of observation is worth a mountain of hypothesis.
Origin (2001)
Your flexibility of mind is impressive, for a man of your evolutionary era.
The Time Ships (1995)
Space (2000)
The Time Ships (1995)
The river of time flowed unmarked, towards the endless seas of timelike infinity.
Ring (1994)
The essential condition for life is the existence of sharp energy gradients.
Raft (1991)
There’s nothing an entrepreneur likes more than the sound of the word free.
Time (1999)
Space (2000)
Time stretches like a lazy leopard when it wants to.
Vacuum Diagrams (1997)
Superstition! A fatal flaw for a regime whose legitimacy comes entirely from religion.
Origin (2001)
Time (1999)
For what goal is there for intelligent creatures, but to gather and store all available information?
The Time Ships (1995)
Timelike Infinity (1992)
Ages in Chaos (2003)
‘In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.’
Ages in Chaos (2003)
From the air Illinois was a vast emptiness studded by lost-looking little towns.
Time (1999)
Understanding is the key to turning anything from a threat into an opportunity.
Ring (1994)
It is of course a truism that all logically possible universes must exist.
Time (1999)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stephen Baxter (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.