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Top 25 Stephen Baxter Quotes (2025 Update)

Stephen Baxter Quote: “When you realize that you are an eternal being, you will laugh at things that used to give you anxiety attacks.”

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

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Stephen Baxter Quote: “In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.”

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

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Stephen Baxter Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

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Stephen Baxter Quote: “When you get close enough to someone you’re never really alone again.”

4. “When you get close enough to someone you’re never really alone again.”

— Stephen Baxter

Stephen Baxter Quote: “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...”

5. “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...”

— Stephen Baxter

Stephen Baxter Quote: “A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility.”

6. “A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility.”

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Stephen Baxter Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

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Stephen Baxter Quote: “We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We’re like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.”

8. “We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We’re like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.”

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Stephen Baxter Quote: “In the heart of a hundred billion worlds – Across a trillion dying realities in a lethal multiverse – In the chthonic silence – There was satisfaction. The network of mind continued to push out in space, from the older stars, the burned-out worlds, to the young, out across the Galaxy. Pushed deep in time too, twisting the fate of countless trillions of lives.”

9. “In the heart of a hundred billion worlds – Across a trillion dying realities in a lethal multiverse – In the chthonic silence – There was satisfaction. The network of mind continued to push out in space, from the older stars, the burned-out worlds, to the young, out across the Galaxy. Pushed deep in time too, twisting the fate of countless trillions of lives.”

— Stephen Baxter

Stephen Baxter Quote: “Testing was never going to be fashionable, but you could hardly run a respectable software development shop with no testing effort at all.”

10. “Testing was never going to be fashionable, but you could hardly run a respectable software development shop with no testing effort at all.”

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Stephen Baxter Quote: “The “gravity train” was devised in the seventeenth century by British scientist Robert Hooke, who presented the idea in a letter to Isaac Newton. The idea has been seriously presented a few times, such as to the Paris Academy of Sciences in the nineteenth century.”

11. “The “gravity train” was devised in the seventeenth century by British scientist Robert Hooke, who presented the idea in a letter to Isaac Newton. The idea has been seriously presented a few times, such as to the Paris Academy of Sciences in the nineteenth century.”

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Stephen Baxter Quote: “We do teach our kids the golden rule – Do as you would be done by.”

12. “We do teach our kids the golden rule – Do as you would be done by.”

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Stephen Baxter Quote: “We ought to call ourselves Homo clamorans. Noisemaking man.”

13. “We ought to call ourselves Homo clamorans. Noisemaking man.”

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Stephen Baxter Quote: “The Earth gave you life, gave you food and language and intelligence, and will take you back when you die.”

14. “The Earth gave you life, gave you food and language and intelligence, and will take you back when you die.”

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Stephen Baxter Quote: “Life gets boring with only humans to talk to.”

15. “Life gets boring with only humans to talk to.”

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Stephen Baxter Quote: “Rees, the secret of a Scientist is not what he knows. It’s what he asks.”

16. “Rees, the secret of a Scientist is not what he knows. It’s what he asks.”

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Stephen Baxter Quote: “The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving.”

17. “The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving.”

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Stephen Baxter Quote: “Authority. The antithesis of science.”

18. “Authority. The antithesis of science.”

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Stephen Baxter Quote: “Let me face bare-handed a dozen highly trained and fully armed gladiators, each with a personal grudge against me, than a lawyer with a single pointed question.”

19. “Let me face bare-handed a dozen highly trained and fully armed gladiators, each with a personal grudge against me, than a lawyer with a single pointed question.”

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Stephen Baxter Quote: “Agnes could read the history of this place, this hilltop. The first settlers here must have made a start clearing fields for their crops or livestock, even put up these grand houses. Then, after no tile at all, they had evidently given up and wondered off to do – well, whatever it was most people did around here to make a living these days. And now here was the forest already taking back the land, or trying to.”

20. “Agnes could read the history of this place, this hilltop. The first settlers here must have made a start clearing fields for their crops or livestock, even put up these grand houses. Then, after no tile at all, they had evidently given up and wondered off to do – well, whatever it was most people did around here to make a living these days. And now here was the forest already taking back the land, or trying to.”

— Stephen Baxter

Stephen Baxter Quote: “And if some self-proclaimed expert tells you that Martians are disembodied creatures of brain without emotion, let him listen to the recordings that were made of those cries, of victory, of vengeance, of exultation. ‘Ulla! Ulla!’ We.”

21. “And if some self-proclaimed expert tells you that Martians are disembodied creatures of brain without emotion, let him listen to the recordings that were made of those cries, of victory, of vengeance, of exultation. ‘Ulla! Ulla!’ We.”

— Stephen Baxter

Stephen Baxter Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

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Stephen Baxter Quote: “An ability to believe in things that weren’t true was a powerful tool.”

23. “An ability to believe in things that weren’t true was a powerful tool.”

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Stephen Baxter Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

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Stephen Baxter Quote: “Is it really conceivable, given all of that immensity, all that structure, that we are truly alone? That life emerged here, and nowhere else?”

25. “Is it really conceivable, given all of that immensity, all that structure, that we are truly alone? That life emerged here, and nowhere else?”

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Stephen Baxter Quote: “And it wasn’t just the subjugation of human beings that distressed her but the level of daily, almost casual brutality. Even for routine punishments there were blood-stained stakes, lead-tipped whips. She’s always rather admired the Romans, for their literacy, their order, their engineering, their respect for the law. Now, she was finding, she’d never fully imagined this side of their civilisation.”

26. “And it wasn’t just the subjugation of human beings that distressed her but the level of daily, almost casual brutality. Even for routine punishments there were blood-stained stakes, lead-tipped whips. She’s always rather admired the Romans, for their literacy, their order, their engineering, their respect for the law. Now, she was finding, she’d never fully imagined this side of their civilisation.”

— Stephen Baxter

Stephen Baxter Quote: “They actually have working gasoline cars, and motels and roadside diners. They even have halls where they pump in toxic fumes so you can smell how it was when we were kids.”

27. “They actually have working gasoline cars, and motels and roadside diners. They even have halls where they pump in toxic fumes so you can smell how it was when we were kids.”

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Stephen Baxter Quote: “We are a side-effect of the universe, not its central function – which seems to be to create star stuff, to form stars.”

28. “We are a side-effect of the universe, not its central function – which seems to be to create star stuff, to form stars.”

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Stephen Baxter Quote: “But, yeah, it was a totally weird place, looking back. But the right kind of weird. Good weird. The nuns had a lot of freedom. We read Carl Sagan before the Old Testament.”

29. “But, yeah, it was a totally weird place, looking back. But the right kind of weird. Good weird. The nuns had a lot of freedom. We read Carl Sagan before the Old Testament.”

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