Quotes from Space — Stephen Baxter
born 1957 England
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As an engineer, he knew that a bucket-load of philosophical principles wasn’t worth a grain of good hard fact.
Space (2000)
After a time it became unbearable, the lesson blinding in its cruelty: but if the universe didn’t get you, other sentient beings would.
Space (2000)
Madeleine’s heart sank. Nemoto would be hard to deal with rationally. People with missions always were.
Space (2000)
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)
She laughed. “Guilt: the Catholic Church’s first patent.”
Space (2000)
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)
The law is a weapon of government, not a protection for the likes of you. Surely you understand that.
Space (2000)
Life, Cassiopeia said, was emergent everywhere. Planets were the crucible. Life curdled, took hold, evolved, in every nook and cranny it could find in the great nursery that was the Galaxy.
Space (2000)
He dug into the ground until he came up with a stone the size of his thumbnail. “—if the universe was the size of this rock, then each star would be the size of a quark.”
Space (2000)
Maura pulled an elaborate face. “Don’t these people realize the cat is already out of the bag? You can’t control the public’s access to information anymore—and you certainly can’t control their response. Nor should you try, in my opinion.”
Space (2000)