Quotes from Ring — Stephen Baxter
born 1957 England
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The river of time flowed unmarked, towards the endless seas of timelike infinity.
Ring (1994)
Understanding is the key to turning anything from a threat into an opportunity.
Ring (1994)
Maybe we should gather a few more facts before wasting our time speculating.
Ring (1994)
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)
She tried, sometimes, to remember how it had been to be young. Or even, not quite so old.
Ring (1994)
Empty. Barren. These were the true conditions of the Universe, she thought; life, and variety, and energy, were isolated aberrations.
Ring (1994)
Try to remember this lesson. It might keep you alive a little longer. The most precious thing to a human being is a mind-set: more precious than one’s own life, even. Human history has taught us that lesson time and again, with its endless parade of wars—human sacrifices en masse—thousands of deaths over the most trivial of differences of religious interpretation.
Ring (1994)
“You know, in principle, why our world is as it is. Isn’t that sufficient? Is it really necessary for you to understand every detail?”
But if I don’t understand, Morrow thought sourly, then you can control me. Arbitrarily. And that’s what I find hard to accept.
Ring (1994)