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Stephen Baxter quotes - page 3
In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.
Stephen Baxter
Authority. The antithesis of science.
Stephen Baxter
You know, in principle, why our world is as it is. Isn't that sufficient? Is it really necessary for you to understand every detail?
Stephen Baxter
But Parz was better than nothing: it offered stability, regulation, a framework to live in. People gripe about their tithes-and nobody's going to pretend that the Committee gets it right all the time-but most of us would prefer taxes to living wild. With all respect to you, my friend.
Stephen Baxter
When you realize that you are an eternal being, you will laugh at things that used to give you anxiety attacks.
Stephen Baxter
We do teach our kids the golden rule - Do as you would be done by.
Stephen Baxter
We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.
Stephen Baxter
Hunger,” Hollerbach said. "The universal imperative.
Stephen Baxter
That's the trouble with living so damned long,” Michael said. "Soured relationships last for ever.
Stephen Baxter
"You know, in principle, why our world is as it is. Isn't that sufficient? Is it really necessary for you to understand every detail?” But if I don't understand, Morrow thought sourly, then you can control me. Arbitrarily. And that's what I find hard to accept.
Stephen Baxter
But that's insane,” Morrow protested. Uvarov hissed, "No one ever said it wasn't. We're human beings. What do you expect?
Stephen Baxter
[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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British Author
Born:
November 13, 1957
Quotes count:
64
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Stephen Baxter
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