Stephen Baxter famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When you get close enough to someone you're never really alone again.
-- Stephen Baxter

#Enough
We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.
-- Stephen Baxter

#Kids #Young #Ruined
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.
-- Stephen Baxter

#Cutting #Past #Envy
In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.
-- Stephen Baxter

#Lying #Space #Police
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...
-- Stephen Baxter

#Phones #Black #Corporations
The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving.
-- Stephen Baxter

#Long #Forgiving #Earth
We do teach our kids the golden rule - Do as you would be done by.
-- Stephen Baxter

#Kids #Done #Golden
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.
-- Stephen Baxter

#Responsibility #Liberty #Citizens
[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.
-- Stephen Baxter

#Book #Reading #Tree
Authority. The antithesis of science.
-- Stephen Baxter

#Authority #Antithesis
We ought to call ourselves Homo clamorans. Noisemaking man.
-- Stephen Baxter

#Men #Ought

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