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)

“You’re a damn fool, boy. I want you to know that now, in case I don’t get a chance to tell you later.”

Stephen Baxter book Flux

Source: Flux (novel) (1993), Chapter 27 (p. 554)

“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 book Flux

He bit into his cake. “And that’s still true today; as true as it ever was.”

Flux (novel) (1993), Chapter 20 (p. 497)

“But you are a scientist, Michael Poole; and the skill of a scientist is in asking the right question.”

Stephen Baxter book Timelike Infinity

Source: Timelike Infinity (1992), Chapter 7 (p. 218)

“The secret of a Scientist is not what he knows. It’s what he asks.”

Stephen Baxter book Raft

Source: Raft (1991), Chapter 4 (p. 45)

“There was no cognition he realized. There was only perception.”

Stephen Baxter book Vacuum Diagrams

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.”

Stephen Baxter book Vacuum Diagrams

The Quagma Datum (p. 201)
Short fiction, Vacuum Diagrams (1997)

“Time stretches like a lazy leopard when it wants to.”

Stephen Baxter book Vacuum Diagrams

More Than Time or Distance (p. 161)
Short fiction, Vacuum Diagrams (1997)