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Manifold: Space (Manifold, #2) QUOTES

Manifold: Space (Manifold, #2) QUOTES

1 " Is it really conceivable, given all of that immensity, all that structure, that we are truly alone? That life emerged here, and nowhere else? "

― Stephen Baxter , Manifold: Space (Manifold, #2)

2 " Thinking about paradoxes is the way human understanding advances. I think the Fermi paradox is telling us something very profound about the universe, and our place in it. "

― Stephen Baxter , Manifold: Space (Manifold, #2)

3 " 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)

4 " 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. "

― Stephen Baxter , Manifold: Space (Manifold, #2)

5 " As an engineer, he knew that a bucket-load of philosophical principles wasn’t worth a grain of good hard fact. "

― Stephen Baxter , Manifold: Space (Manifold, #2)

6 " This is the way I think the world will end—with general giggling by all the witty heads, who think it is a joke.’ Kierkegaard. "

― Stephen Baxter , Manifold: Space (Manifold, #2)

7 " But his wife was long gone, of course, struck down by cancer: the result of a random cosmic accident, a heavy particle that had come whizzing out of an ancient supernova and flown across the universe to damage her just so … It could have been him; it could have been neither of them; it could have happened a few years later, when cancer had been reduced to a manageable disease. But it hadn’t worked out like that, and Malenfant, burned out, already grounded, had been left alone. "

― Stephen Baxter , Manifold: Space (Manifold, #2)