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born 1957 England

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

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She laughed. “Guilt: the Catholic Church’s first patent.”

Space (2000)

We all project our petty lives upon the universe.

Return to Titan (2010)

It seems to me that the human race simply isn’t advanced enough yet to be able to trust any subset of itself with the power to run the lives of the rest.

Time (1999)

Relentless Pleistocene selection was shaping everything that would make up humanity. Even love was a by-product of evolution. Love, and the pain of loss.

Evolution (2002)

I know the military. The sooner they can kick a problem upstairs the happier they will be.

Ultima (2014)

She tried, sometimes, to remember how it had been to be young. Or even, not quite so old.

Ring (1994)

For the genes it made sense, of course. Otherwise it would not have happened.

Evolution (2002)

The secret of a Scientist is not what he knows. It’s what he asks.

Raft (1991)

They see the universe as essentially bountiful, a generous motherland. We see the universe as an enemy nation, to be occupied and mastered.

Origin (2001)

Life seems to be emergent from the very fabric of the universe that contains us, hardwired into physical law. And so, I suppose, mind is emergent too.

Space (2000)

Buffon’s work created a great furore, of course. The theologians at the Sorbonne condemned him, and Buffon dutifully retracted. But he wasn’t sincere: ‘It is better to be humble than hanged.’

Ages in Chaos (2003)

Almost all of history was a carefully constructed mythology for use as propaganda or nation building.

Time (1999)

It was a striking demonstration of how geomorphology, the shape of the landscape, dominates human geography.

The Time Ships (1995)

Bex shrugged. “You think anybody’s going to listen to a bunch of scientists? No offense. But nobody has so far.”

Evolution (2002)

Paul closed his eyes, hoping to make the incomprehensible Universe disappear into the vacuum from which it had sprung.

Vacuum Diagrams (1997)

In his reliance on evidence, preferably obtained at first hand, Hutton was showing the way to the geological methods of the future.

Ages in Chaos (2003)

The rodents’ vast litters incidentally offered up much raw material to the blind sculptors of natural selection; their evolutionary rate was ferocious.

Evolution (2002)

It was a war that was inevitable because it was a war that everybody wanted.

Time (1999)

As the natural systems of the planet broke down, humans would discover conclusively that they were still, after all, just animals in an ecosystem; and as it died back, so did they.

Evolution (2002)

You’re a damn fool, boy. I want you to know that now, in case I don’t get a chance to tell you later.

Flux (1993)

Attribution

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