Top 60 Stephen Baxter Quotes
#1. We're going to bollocks up our second chance at Eden, even before the paint has dried.
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#2. In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.
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#3. Per ardua ad astra. Through adversity to the stars.
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#4. Every door I pass is one way. So I may as well look around, and see what there is beyond the next door, and the next.
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#5. We do teach our kids the golden rule - Do as you would be done by.
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#7. Evaded her, and she sensed they did not believe her
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#9. King said, "Come. Sit. Have some more drinks. Colonel Kalinski, will you sort that out? You
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#11. The ColU, sitting on its tabletop, seemed to Stef to twinkle. 'I'm Colius the Oracle now.
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#12. A pioneer family lived beyond the reach of shopping malls ...
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#13. A sentient mind refuses to be confined by the parameters of its programming.
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#14. When you realize that you are an eternal being, you will laugh at things that used to give you anxiety attacks.
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#15. The "gravity train" was devised in the seventeenth century by British scientist Robert Hooke, who presented the idea in a letter to Isaac Newton. The idea has been seriously presented a few times, such as to the Paris Academy of Sciences in the nineteenth century.
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#16. The Earth gave you life, gave you food and language and intelligence, and will take you back when you die.
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#17. We ought to call ourselves Homo clamorans. Noisemaking man.
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#18. Wow. Pioneers with ice-cream."
Joshua felt motivated to defend his home. "Well, it doesn't have to be like the Donner Party, Sally-
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#19. They actually have working gasoline cars, and motels and roadside diners. They even have halls where they pump in toxic fumes so you can smell how it was when we were kids.
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#20. There'll be a sky full of babies and their shit, suspended overhead. You do not want to get caught in that rain when it falls.
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#21. A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility.
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#23. We are all creatures of logic, at root. Of little switches turning on and off in our heads, metaphorically speaking.
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#24. Let me face bare-handed a dozen highly trained and fully armed gladiators, each with a personal grudge against me, than a lawyer with a single pointed question.
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#25. [F]olks would better off dipping their heads in a bucket of liquid [nitrogen] and battering them against a tree very very hard than reading Baxter's Titan. It would not surprise me if reading that book causes birth defects.
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#26. And our sailors of space have a legend of the furthest star of all, where the gods lay their plans against us, or plot the catastrophes of the end of time: the pachacuti. We call this undiscovered star Karu, which means 'far'.'
'As we speak of Ultima,' Quintus mused.
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#27. An ability to believe in things that weren't true was a powerful tool.
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#28. Look, whatever hayseed laws you pass in Who-Knows-What -"
"Hell-Knows-Where."
"Don't amount to a hill of beans back here, as your type might say.
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#29. Colonists of, ah, Per Ardua, meet your autonomous colonisation unit!
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#30. Rees, the secret of a Scientist is not what he knows. It's what he asks.
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#31. Two damaged people, thrown together in a hostile world, doing their best. What else was there to life, in the end?
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#32. Is it really conceivable, given all of that immensity, all that structure, that we are truly alone? That life emerged here, and nowhere else?
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#33. Our citizens must be protected, even from being dumb, which is not a crime.
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#34. You'll feel like Jesu Himself in the End Times, when He will descend on Rome with Augustus and Vespasian on His left and right hands, to establish the final dominion of the Caesars across the stars.
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#35. When you get close enough to someone you're never really alone again.
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#38. Imagine God inside your computer, your phone, everyone else's computer. Imagine someone who almost is the Black Corporation, with all its power and riches and reach. And who, despite all this, seems pretty sane and beneficent by the standards of most gods. Oh, and who sometimes swears in Tibetan ...
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#40. Testing was never going to be fashionable, but you could hardly run a respectable software development shop with no testing effort at all.
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#41. I quoted to him what I remembered of Charles Darwin: "'Judging by the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity ... '"
"Darwin was right," Nebogipfel said gently.
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#42. And maybe a hundred billion cephalopod minds, out in the Trojans, just light-minutes apart, have become something - "
"Transcendent.
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#43. This is a strange situation, sir. Perhaps imagination is what we need.
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#45. By now there were whole new Industrial Revolutions going on in the Low Earths; the British seemed to have the building of steam engines and railways in their genes.
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#46. Space is for the cephalopods, Maura. It never was meant for us.
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#47. He took refuge in the concept that sometimes slowest is the fastest in the end.
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#48. If something is so far beyond your imagination, it's hard even to fear it.
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#49. This is what I have learned, Malenfant. This is how it is, how it was, how it came to be.
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#50. The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future.
Cut loose the past; it is dead weight.
Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.
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#51. And if some self-proclaimed expert tells you that Martians are disembodied creatures of brain without emotion, let him listen to the recordings that were made of those cries, of victory, of vengeance, of exultation. 'Ulla! Ulla!' We
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#52. I have a vision of a Galaxy overrun by mankind from Core to rim. Of four hundred billion stars each enslaved to the rhythm of Earth's day, Earth's year. I have a vision of a trillion planets pulsing to the beat of a human heart.
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#53. Sometimes people say that we're living in the future, and time's up for science fiction, but I think that never will be, because science fiction really isn't about the future. It's about change and present-day concerns
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#55. Those redshift numbers. The cephalopods must be leaving at close to light speed."
"Where do you think they are going?"
"Maybe that isn't the point, Maura. Maybe the point is what they are trying to flee.
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#56. We could try the Turin test," said Lobsang.
"Oh, machines have been able to pass the Turing test for years."
"No, the Turin test. We both pray for an hour, and see if God can tell the difference.
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#57. The folk of Hell-Knows-Where by default still thought of themselves as Americans.
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#58. We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.
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#59. Well, don't stand about like that, man; if you're no use you're certainly no ornament. Bring that in and tell me what it says.
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#60. If I was a cynic I would be wondering if sooner or later some charismatic douche-bag might stomp all over this Little House on the Prairie dream of yours.
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