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The universe aged: indifferent, harsh, hostile and ultimately lethal.

— Stephen Baxter Origin (2001)

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The future, it seemed, was turning out to be one damn thing after another.

Time (1999)

A pinch of observation is worth a mountain of hypothesis.

Origin (2001)

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

The Time Ships (1995)

As an engineer, he knew that a bucket-load of philosophical principles wasn’t worth a grain of good hard fact.

Space (2000)

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)

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Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring — not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.

Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature (1836)

Her blue eyes sought the west afar,
For lovers love the western star.

Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.

Arthur Koestler The Act of Creation (1964)

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