Best 18 quotes of Stephen Baxter on MyQuotes

Authority. The antithesis of science.

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.

In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.

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.

We do teach our kids the golden rule - Do as you would be done by.

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

When you realize that you are an eternal being, you will laugh at things that used to give you anxiety attacks.

A brief life burns brightly.

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.

Earth stuff, Mars boy.

Here, the Prophet was born in a settled and stable province of a strong Roman Empire. Much as in our timeline, Islamic civilisation, the dar-al Islam, flourished, but under Roman protection. There were no centuries of inter-faith conflict in Europe – no crusades, for instance. Even in the pre-Christian days, the Romans were always pragmatic about local religions. To the Romans, Islam is a muscular sister creed of the Christianity that is their official state religion.

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.

Per ardua ad astra. Through adversity to the stars.

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

This is a strange situation, sir. Perhaps imagination is what we need.

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.

We're going to bollocks up our second chance at Eden, even before the paint has dried.

Which one of you’s the bitch?