Exultant Quotes

“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.”
― Stephen Baxter, Exultant

“I have a vision of a Galaxy overrun by mankind from Core to rim. Of four hundred billion stars each enslaved to the rhythm of Earth's day, Earth's year. I have a vision of a trillion planets pulsing to the beat of a human heart.”
― Stephen Baxter, Exultant

“A brief life burns brightly.”
― Stephen Baxter, Exultant

“sclerotic”
― Stephen Baxter, Exultant

“In the past we humans, struggling to comprehend our place in the universe, imagined gods, and venerated them. But now we have looked across the width of the universe, and from its beginning to its end. And we know there are no gods. We are the creators of the future. And the only entities worthy of our veneration are our own descendants, who, thanks to our selfless striving, will occupy the gods’ empty thrones. But we have a Galaxy to win first.”
― Stephen Baxter, Exultant

“she was the only Navy personnel here.”
― Stephen Baxter, Exultant