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Stephen Baxter Quotes

born 1957 England

Stephen Baxter (born November 13, 1957) is a British science fiction writer.

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111 quotes

One must admire efficiency when one finds it, whatever one’s moral qualms.

Origin (2001)

Humans and their petty doings come and go, but the geology endures.

Ages in Chaos (2003)

He walks on, across the hot crimson dust.

Origin (2001)

What makes you think anybody with power will listen to a bunch of scientists? They never have before.

Evolution (2002)

Information—its gathering, interpretation and storage—is the ultimate goal of all intelligent life.

The Time Ships (1995)

Madeleine’s heart sank. Nemoto would be hard to deal with rationally. People with missions always were.

Space (2000)

And I have learned that leadership is, more often than not, the art of choosing the least worst among evils.

Time (1999)

Maybe we should gather a few more facts before wasting our time speculating.

Ring (1994)

Cause and Effect, when Time Machines are about, are rather awkward concepts.

The Time Ships (1995)

Maybe it’s time we humans abandoned our species-specific chauvinism—our petty outrage that the Universe has unfolded in a way that doesn’t suit us.

Ring (1994)

My fear was gone, to be replaced by a numbing sense of tedium: it is remarkable how rapidly the human mind can accommodate the most remarkable of changed circumstances.

The Time Ships (1995)

The shortness of human lives, she thought. Our curse. Every generation thinks it is immortal, that it has been born into a world that has never changed, and will never change.

Space (2000)

“Have you studied history, Anna?”
“Yes. The information is limited, the interpretation is partial. But it is interesting.”

Time (1999)

Self-doubt is part of being human...but the main thing is to get on with the business of survival.

Raft (1991)

No wonder you can’t figure out the Fermi Paradox, Malenfant, if you don’t know your own wife’s dress size.

Origin (2001)

In engineering, experience gained is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined.

Time (1999)

We must consider the possibility that the manifold of universes through which we wonder is in fact infinite.

Origin (2001)

They talked further, an incoherent conversation of disconnected fragments, peppered by misunderstanding, suffused by mistrust.

Origin (2001)

Mind you, flatulence was one skill he had bettered as he had got older.

Flux (1993)

Everyone was used to official manipulation of the truth—to zhilu weima, to point at a deer and call it a horse, as the expression went.

Time (1999)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stephen Baxter (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.