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Stephen Baxter

Datum narození: 13. listopad 1957

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Stephen Baxter je britský autor hard science fiction. Vystudoval matematiku a strojařství.

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Citáty Stephen Baxter

„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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— Stephen Baxter, Evolution
Evolution (2002), Chapter 11 “Mother’s People” section I (p. 337)

„Her story was a creation myth, a legend already more than twenty thousand years old. Such tales—which said that Jahna’s people were the pinnacle of creation, that theirs was the only right way, and that all others were less than human—taught the people to care passionately about themselves, their kin, and a few treasured ideals.
But to the exclusion of all other humans, let alone such non-people as the Old Man’s kind.“

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— Stephen Baxter, Evolution
Evolution (2002), Chapter 13 “Last Contact” section III (p. 432)

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„Life had always been chancy. And now life had found ways of surviving the ultimate extinction event. In new oceans and on strange lands, evolution had begun again.
But it had nothing to do with mankind.“

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— Stephen Baxter, Evolution
Evolution (2002), Chapter 19 “A Far Distant Futurity” section III (p. 636)

„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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— Stephen Baxter, Evolution
Evolution (2002), Chapter 10 “The Crowded Land” section II (p. 308)

„In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.“

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— Stephen Baxter
Ages in Chaos (2003), Chapter 15, “The world was tired out with geological theories” (p. 153)

„Hutton became very critical of a system where appointments depended not on merit but on the support of those in power. Of one possible opening for Watt he wrote, ‘I think it only needs to have a man properly bestir himself but that is what few political people do unless to serve themselves.“

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— Stephen Baxter
Ages in Chaos (2003), Chapter 11, “The power of heat is unlimited” (p. 105)

„“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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— Stephen Baxter, Evolution
Evolution (2002), Chapter 17 “A Long Shadow” section II (p. 539)

„There was no design in this: no sense of improvement, of purpose. All that was happening was that each organism was struggling to preserve itself, its offspring, and its kin. But as the environment slowly changed, so through relentless selection did the species that inhabited it. It was not a process fueled by life, but by death: the elimination of the less well adapted, the endless culling of inappropriate possibilities. But the potential of an unseen future was no consolation to those who lived through the relentless culling.“

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— Stephen Baxter, Evolution
Evolution (2002), Chapter 5 “The Time of Long Shadows” section II (pp. 120-121)

„If you were part of a group there was always the chance that the predator would take the next guy, not you. It was a cold-blooded lottery that paid off often enough to be worthwhile adapting for.
But there were disadvantages to group living: mainly, if there were large numbers of you, there was increased competition for food. As that competition resolved itself, the inevitable result was social complexity—and the size of the adapids’ brains had increased so that they were capable of handling that complexity. Then, of course, they were forced to become even more efficient at searching for food to fuel those big brains.
It was the way of the future. As primate societies became ever more complex, a kind of cognitive arms race would continue, increasing smartness fueled by increasing social complications.“

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— Stephen Baxter, Evolution
Evolution (2002), Chapter 5 “The Time of Long Shadows” section I (p. 113)

„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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— Stephen Baxter, Evolution
Evolution (2002), Prologue (p. 6)

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„Francis Bacon, who died in the seventeenth century, argued strongly that philosophy and theology should be kept separate, and that we should concentrate our studies on the local problems and the interconnections between material and efficient causes. Final-cause analysis was just a distraction: ‘Inquiry into final causes is sterile, and, like a virgin consecrated to God, produces nothing.“

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— Stephen Baxter
Ages in Chaos (2003), Chapter 5, “The Earth’s blood is the veins of its waters” (p. 43)

„The emergent humans were still animals, still bound by natural law. No innovation in the way they lived would have taken root if it had not given them an adaptive advantage in the endless struggle to survive. An ability to believe in things that weren’t true was a powerful tool.“

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— Stephen Baxter, Evolution
Evolution (2002), Chapter 11 “Mother’s People” section IV (p. 367)

„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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— Stephen Baxter, Evolution
Evolution (2002), Chapter 13 “Last Contact” section I (pp. 406-407)

„The fault is all ours. We have become overwhelming. About one in twenty of all the people who have ever existed is alive today, compared to just one in a thousand of other species. As a result we are depleting the earth.
But even now the question is still asked: Does it really matter? So we lose a few cute mammals, and a lot of bugs nobody ever heard of. So what? We’re still here.
Yes, we are. But the ecosystem is like a vast life-support machine. It is built on the interaction of species on all scales of life, from the humblest fungi filaments that sustain the roots of plants to the tremendous global cycles of water, oxygen, and carbon dioxide. Darwin’s entangled bank, indeed. How does the machine stay stable? We don’t know. Which are its most important components? We don’t know. How much of it can we take out safely? We don’t know that either. Even if we could identify and save the species that are critical for our survival, we wouldn’t know which species they depend on in turn. But if we keep on our present course, we will soon find out the limits of robustness.
I may be biased, but I believe it will matter a great deal if we were to die by our own foolishness. Because we bring to the world something that no other creature in all its long history has had, and that is conscious purpose. We can think our way out of this.
So my question is—consciously, purposefully, what are we going to do?“

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— Stephen Baxter, Evolution
Evolution (2002), Chapter 16 “An Entangled Bank” section I (pp. 509-510)

„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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— Stephen Baxter, Evolution
Evolution (2002), Chapter 16 “An Entangled Bank” section II (p. 525)

„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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— Stephen Baxter, Evolution
Evolution (2002), Epilogue (p. 644)

„Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Etiam egestas wisi a erat. Morbi imperdiet, mauris ac auctor dictum.“

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Citáty Stephen Baxter

„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.“

„Life had always been chancy. And now life had found ways of surviving the ultimate extinction event. In new oceans and on strange lands, evolution had begun again.
But it had nothing to do with mankind.“

„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.“

„In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.“

„Hutton became very critical of a system where appointments depended not on merit but on the support of those in power. Of one possible opening for Watt he wrote, ‘I think it only needs to have a man properly bestir himself but that is what few political people do unless to serve themselves.“

„“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.”“

„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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„The emergent humans were still animals, still bound by natural law. No innovation in the way they lived would have taken root if it had not given them an adaptive advantage in the endless struggle to survive. An ability to believe in things that weren’t true was a powerful tool.“

„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.“

„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.“

„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.“

„Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Etiam egestas wisi a erat. Morbi imperdiet, mauris ac auctor dictum.“

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