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Every world needed an artist. -- Stephen Baxter
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Evaded her, and she sensed they did not believe her -- Stephen Baxter
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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. -- Stephen Baxter
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Space is for the cephalopods, Maura. It never was meant for us. -- Stephen Baxter
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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. -- Stephen Baxter
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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. -- Stephen Baxter
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If something is so far beyond your imagination, it's hard even to fear it. -- Stephen Baxter
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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
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King said, "Come. Sit. Have some more drinks. Colonel Kalinski, will you sort that out? You -- Stephen Baxter
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Wow. Pioneers with ice-cream."
Joshua felt motivated to defend his home. "Well, it doesn't have to be like the Donner Party, Sally- -- Stephen Baxter
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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
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In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box. -- Stephen Baxter
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Authority. The antithesis of science. -- Stephen Baxter
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Rees, the secret of a Scientist is not what he knows. It's what he asks. -- Stephen Baxter
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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
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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. -- Stephen Baxter
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We are all creatures of logic, at root. Of little switches turning on and off in our heads, metaphorically speaking. -- Stephen Baxter
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Per ardua ad astra. Through adversity to the stars. -- Stephen Baxter
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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. -- Stephen Baxter
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When you get close enough to someone you're never really alone again. -- Stephen Baxter
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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. -- Stephen Baxter
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We're going to bollocks up our second chance at Eden, even before the paint has dried. -- Stephen Baxter
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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. -- Stephen Baxter
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Is it really conceivable, given all of that immensity, all that structure, that we are truly alone? That life emerged here, and nowhere else? -- Stephen Baxter
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An ability to believe in things that weren't true was a powerful tool. -- Stephen Baxter
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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. -- Stephen Baxter
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Colonists of, ah, Per Ardua, meet your autonomous colonisation unit! -- Stephen Baxter
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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. -- Stephen Baxter
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The ColU, sitting on its tabletop, seemed to Stef to twinkle. 'I'm Colius the Oracle now. -- Stephen Baxter
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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. -- Stephen Baxter
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Which one of you's the bitch? -- Stephen Baxter
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And there's no such thing as too much back-up. -- Stephen Baxter
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The Earth gave you life, gave you food and language and intelligence, and will take you back when you die. -- Stephen Baxter
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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. -- Stephen Baxter
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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. -- Stephen Baxter
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A pioneer family lived beyond the reach of shopping malls ... -- Stephen Baxter
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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. -- Stephen Baxter
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Two damaged people, thrown together in a hostile world, doing their best. What else was there to life, in the end? -- Stephen Baxter
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Testing was never going to be fashionable, but you could hardly run a respectable software development shop with no testing effort at all. -- Stephen Baxter
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He took refuge in the concept that sometimes slowest is the fastest in the end. -- Stephen Baxter
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Rome strikes back! -- Stephen Baxter
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A sentient mind refuses to be confined by the parameters of its programming. -- Stephen Baxter
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And maybe a hundred billion cephalopod minds, out in the Trojans, just light-minutes apart, have become something - "
"Transcendent. -- Stephen Baxter
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[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
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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 -- Stephen Baxter
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We do teach our kids the golden rule - Do as you would be done by. -- Stephen Baxter
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Earth stuff, Mars boy. -- Stephen Baxter
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We ought to call ourselves Homo clamorans. Noisemaking man. -- Stephen Baxter
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When you realize that you are an eternal being, you will laugh at things that used to give you anxiety attacks. -- Stephen Baxter
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A brief life burns brightly. -- Stephen Baxter
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The folk of Hell-Knows-Where by default still thought of themselves as Americans. -- Stephen Baxter
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This is a strange situation, sir. Perhaps imagination is what we need. -- Stephen Baxter
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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. -- Stephen Baxter
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Our citizens must be protected, even from being dumb, which is not a crime. -- Stephen Baxter
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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 -- Stephen Baxter
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Life gets boring with only humans to talk to. -- Stephen Baxter
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This is what I have learned, Malenfant. This is how it is, how it was, how it came to be. -- Stephen Baxter
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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. -- Stephen Baxter
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We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion. -- Stephen Baxter
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The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving. -- Stephen Baxter