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41 " The Earth gave you life, gave you food and language and intelligence, and will take you back when you die. "
― Stephen Baxter , Manifold: Space (Manifold, #2)
42 " 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. "
― Stephen Baxter , Ultima
43 " 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. "
44 " 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. "
45 " The squid are leaving, Maura… "
― Stephen Baxter , Time (Manifold #1)
46 " And maybe a hundred billion cephalopod minds, out in the Trojans, just light-minutes apart, have become something—”“Transcendent. "
47 " Jiang was not Han Chinese. She was a Turkic Uighur, a Muslim minority which emanated from the westernmost province of Xinjiang. Jiang’s family came from the desert capital Urumqi; her family had moved to Beijing when she was a child when Jiang’s father, a mid-ranking Party cadre, was posted to the Minorities Institute in the capital in the 1970s. Since her father was both an official and a Uighur, the family had been treated with a special deference reserved for select representatives of minority groups who served as symbols for the Party’s efforts to build ‘socialist solidarity’ between central China and the non-Han regions. In Beijing, Jiang had attended a special ‘experimental’ school reserved for the children of the Party élite. "
― Stephen Baxter , Titan
48 " Which one of you’s the bitch? "
― Stephen Baxter , Proxima
49 " That’s the trouble with happy endings,” he told me after the funeral. “You just live on and on, until you’ve sucked all the juice out, and it turns out not to be so happy after all. "
― Stephen Baxter , Transcendent (Destiny's Children, #3)
50 " What do you "
51 " Berry phase "
― Stephen Baxter , Last and First Contacts (Imaginings #2)
52 " You know you will get what you need, if not necessarily what you ask for. "
― Stephen Baxter , Galaxias
53 " The mass of people was ignorant, driven by fashions, fads, and the tongues of orators... "
― Stephen Baxter , Raft (Xeelee Sequence, #1)
54 " The past is altered, constantly, by our actions in the present. "
― Stephen Baxter , Ring (Xeelee Sequence, #4)
55 " But few birds flew nowadays. Why fly when there was nothing to flee, "
― Stephen Baxter , Evolution
56 " ...people, with their faults and ambiguities and weaknesses, and plumbing. "
57 " It's so beautiful." Spinner stared at the eagle wings of the Nebula, drinking in its pale colors. "Louise, I'm so lucky to be here, to see this. Uvarov might have sent someone else through the Locks, that first time; not me and Arrow Maker. You might have asked someone else to learn to run your nightfighter for you - and not me.Louise, I might have missed this. I might have died without seeing it - without ever knowing it existed. "
― Stephen Baxter
58 " There was a German called Leibniz. “The philosopher? Never heard of him.” Entities that cannot be distinguished by any means whatsoever, even in principle, at any time in the past, present, and future have to be considered identical. This is called the Identity of Indiscernibles. "
59 " Even the deep inner senses: even proprioception "
― Stephen Baxter , World Engines: Destroyer
60 " Even the stars had been obscured, their light stolen by Dyson masks: dense orbiting habitat clouds, even solid spheres, asteroids and planets dismantled and made into traps for every stray photon. It was a depressing sight: an engineered sky, a sky full of scaffolding and ruins. "