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

— Stephen Baxter Time (1999)

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

Origin (2001)

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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