Source: Evolution (2002), Chapter 13 “Last Contact” section I (pp. 406-407)
Works
Famous Stephen Baxter Quotes
Source: Ages in Chaos (2003), Chapter 10, “Assemblies of good fellows” (p. 95)
Source: Evolution (2002), Chapter 6 “The Crossing” section IV (p. 185)
Source: Ages in Chaos (2003), Chapter 6, “Upon this chaos rode the distressed ark” (p. 55)
Stephen Baxter Quotes about the trip
Source: Evolution (2002), Chapter 16 “An Entangled Bank” section I (pp. 509-510)
Source: Evolution (2002), Chapter 11 “Mother’s People” section IV (p. 367)
Source: Ages in Chaos (2003), Chapter 8, “A cursed country where one has to shape everything out of a block” (p. 70)
Source: Evolution (2002), Chapter 13 “Last Contact” section III (p. 432)
Source: Evolution (2002), Chapter 5 “The Time of Long Shadows” section I (p. 113)
Source: Ages in Chaos (2003), Chapter 20, “It altered the tone of one’s mind” (p. 208)
Stephen Baxter Quotes about time
Source: Evolution (2002), Chapter 11 “Mother’s People” section IV (pp. 370-371)
Source: Ages in Chaos (2003), Chapter 15, “The world was tired out with geological theories” (p. 160)
“The river of time flowed unmarked, towards the endless seas of timelike infinity.”
Source: Ring (1994), Chapter 35 (p. 891; closing words)
“Maybe we should gather a few more facts before wasting our time speculating.”
Source: Ring (1994), Chapter 30 (p. 852)
He bit into his cake. “And that’s still true today; as true as it ever was.”
Flux (novel) (1993), Chapter 20 (p. 497)
Stephen Baxter: Trending quotes
“For the genes it made sense, of course. Otherwise it would not have happened.”
Source: Evolution (2002), Chapter 18 “The Kingdom of the Rats” section III (p. 597)
Source: Evolution (2002), Chapter 15 “The Dying Light” section III (p. 501)
Source: Evolution (2002), Chapter 16 “An Entangled Bank” section I (p. 513)
Stephen Baxter Quotes
Source: Evolution (2002), Chapter 14 “The Swarming People” section II (p. 456)
Source: Ages in Chaos (2003), Chapter 8, “A cursed country where one has to shape everything out of a block” (p. 68)
Source: Evolution (2002), Chapter 5 “The Time of Long Shadows” section III (p. 132)
Source: Evolution (2002), Chapter 15 “The Dying Light” section III (p. 502)
Source: Ages in Chaos (2003), Chapter 13, “Britain derives nothing but loss from the dominion” (p. 124)
Source: Evolution (2002), Chapter 18 “The Kingdom of the Rats” section II (p. 579)
Source: Evolution (2002), Chapter 16 “An Entangled Bank” section II (p. 525)
Source: Ages in Chaos (2003), Chapter 2, “The first day of the creation is deduced” (p. 17)
Source: Ages in Chaos (2003), Chapter 14, “We have now got to the end of our reasoning” (p. 130)
Source: Ages in Chaos (2003), Chapter 5, “The Earth’s blood is the veins of its waters” (p. 43)
Prologue (p. 6)
Evolution (2002)
Source: Evolution (2002), Chapter 5 “The Time of Long Shadows” section II (pp. 120-121)
Source: Evolution (2002), Chapter 17 “A Long Shadow” section II (p. 539)
Source: Ages in Chaos (2003), Chapter 11, “The power of heat is unlimited” (p. 105)
“Humans and their petty doings come and go, but the geology endures.”
Epilogue (p. 223)
Ages in Chaos (2003)
Source: Flood (2008), Chapter 90
“In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.”
Source: Ages in Chaos (2003), Chapter 15, “The world was tired out with geological theories” (p. 153)
Source: Evolution (2002), Chapter 10 “The Crowded Land” section II (p. 308)
Source: Evolution (2002), Chapter 19 “A Far Distant Futurity” section III (p. 636)
Source: Evolution (2002), Chapter 11 “Mother’s People” section I (p. 337)
Source: Timelike Infinity (1992), Chapter 12 (p. 266)
“Self-doubt is part of being human...but the main thing is to get on with the business of survival.”
Source: Raft (1991), Chapter 16 (p. 158)
“The essential condition for life is the existence of sharp energy gradients.”
Source: Raft (1991), Chapter 15 (p. 151)
Source: Ring (1994), Chapter 18 (p. 743)
“Understanding is the key to turning anything from a threat into an opportunity.”
Source: Ring (1994), Chapter 17 (p. 736)
“She tried, sometimes, to remember how it had been to be young. Or ever, not quite so old.”
Source: Ring (1994), Chapter 13 (p. 704)
But if I don’t understand, Morrow thought sourly, then you can control me. Arbitrarily. And that’s what I find hard to accept.
Chapter 8 (p. 649)
Ring (1994)
Source: Flux (novel) (1993), Chapter 27 (p. 554)
Source: Timelike Infinity (1992), Chapter 7 (p. 218)
“The secret of a Scientist is not what he knows. It’s what he asks.”
Source: Raft (1991), Chapter 4 (p. 45)
“There was no cognition he realized. There was only perception.”
Secret History (p. 350)
Short fiction, Vacuum Diagrams (1997)
“I’ve made myself a rich man. You shouldn’t assume that makes me a fool.”
The Quagma Datum (p. 201)
Short fiction, Vacuum Diagrams (1997)
“Time stretches like a lazy leopard when it wants to.”
More Than Time or Distance (p. 161)
Short fiction, Vacuum Diagrams (1997)