Stephen Baxter Short Quotes

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

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When you get close enough to someone you're never really alone again.

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For the genes it made sense, of course. Otherwise it would not have happened.

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

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What makes you think anybody with power will listen to a bunch of scientists? They never have before.

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Bex shrugged. You think anybody's going to listen to a bunch of scientists? No offense. But nobody has so far.

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But even if it is true, even if we are governed by the legacy of an animal past, then it is up to us to behave as if it were not so.

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The rodents' vast litters incidentally offered up much raw material to the blind sculptors of natural selection; their evolutionary rate was ferocious.

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Relentless Pleistocene selection was shaping everything that would make up humanity. Even love was a by-product of evolution. Love, and the pain of loss.

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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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There were other ways for primates to live, other kinds of societies that could be imagined. But once the pattern had been set, it was all but impossible to break.

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You aren't doing much for morale, Sidewise.
Sidewise shot back, And what about my morale? It does me no damn good to ignore what's blindingly obvious all around us.

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In this marginal land accurate information was at a premium; to know the land was to prosper, not to know it meant starvation, and experts were a lot more valuable than bosses.

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Anyhow, that's our story. And I think, in my glimpses of the great encompassing mechanism that has shaped us all, I've seen a little of the numinous. That's enough of God for me.

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As the natural systems of the planet broke down, humans would discover conclusively that they were still, after all, just animals in an ecosystem; and as it died back, so did they.

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With his eland meat Brow was able to reinforce his political position among the men—and buy access to the women, which was ultimately the only purpose of his endless battle for dominance.

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If you were capable of thinking of an object from more than one point of view, you could imagine it doing all sorts of things. For Mother, consciousness was becoming more than just a tool for lying.

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