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Quotes from The Time Ships — Stephen Baxter

born 1957 England

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11 quotes

Your flexibility of mind is impressive, for a man of your evolutionary era.

The Time Ships (1995)

I have always been distrustful of personal power—for I have met not one man wise enough to be entrusted with it.

The Time Ships (1995)

For what goal is there for intelligent creatures, but to gather and store all available information?

The Time Ships (1995)

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

The Time Ships (1995)

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

The Time Ships (1995)

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)

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

The Time Ships (1995)

Like all the works of man, I saw, even these great structures were transient chimeras, destined to impermanence compared to the chthonian patience of the land.

The Time Ships (1995)

You can observe for yourself the degradation of the air and water around us. The earth has a limited capacity to absorb the waste products of human industry, and with enough development, the planet could even be rendered uninhabitable.

The Time Ships (1995)

The hugeness of time, and the littleness of man and his achievements, quite crushed me; and my own, petty concerns seemed of absurd insignificance. The story of Humanity seemed trivial, a flash-lamp moment lost in the dark, mindless halls of Eternity.

The Time Ships (1995)

Men thought of war—always the next one—as a great cleansing, as the last war that ever need to be fought. But it was not so, I could see now: men fought wars because of the legacy of the brute inside them, and any justification was a mere rationalization supplied by our oversized brains.

The Time Ships (1995)

Attribution

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