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The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time; and while we listened with earnestness and admiration to the philosopher who was now unfolding to us the order and series of these wonderful events, we became sensible how much farther reason may sometimes go than imagination can venture to follow.

— Stephen Baxter Ages in Chaos (2003)

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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.

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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.

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