Stephen Baxter

"Self-doubt is part of being human...but the main thing is to get on with the business of survival."

"The secret of a Scientist is not what he knows. It’s what he asks."

"In his reliance on evidence, preferably obtained at first hand, Hutton was showing the way to the geological methods of the future."

"As I've often said, I'm a fan of hard SF. No, it's more like I am addicted to it, even the stepped-on 20 times and cut with powered milk and rat-poison sort of hard SF. This gets us to Stephen Baxter'…"

"Try to remember this lesson. It might keep you alive a little longer. The most precious thing to a human being is a mind-set: more precious than one’s own life, even. Human history has taught us that …"

"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."

"A growing belief that behind every event lay intention—be it an evil thought in the mind of another, or the benevolent whim of a god in the sky—was perhaps inevitable in creatures with an innate under…"

"You’re a damn fool, boy. I want you to know that now, in case I don’t get a chance to tell you later."