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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.”

— Stephen Baxter Space (2000)

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

Time (1999)

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)

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