GREGORY BENFORD QUOTES III

American author & astrophysicist (1941- )

Somehow to them, the press was always the judge of things scientific.

GREGORY BENFORD

Timescape


They will do anything for the worker, except become one.

GREGORY BENFORD

Timescape


Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury -- or at least comfort -- so there's a lot of frustration and resentment when the dream craps out.

GREGORY BENFORD

Timescape


Humans and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. With aliens, that has to go double.

GREGORY BENFORD

Shipstar


Talkers never acted when they could talk.

GREGORY BENFORD

"Redeemer", In Alien Flesh


Never trust in theories, m'lad, if they're thought up by types who work in offices.

GREGORY BENFORD

Sailing Bright Eternity


Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.

GREGORY BENFORD

afterword, Timescape

Tags: science


People said that mathematicians were unworldly, and yammered on about how Einstein couldn't make correct change. Nonsense. Einstein just didn't give a damn. It was the subtle, the beautiful that concerned him.

GREGORY BENFORD

Artifact


Look, it's not love that makes the world go round, it's inertia.

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In the Ocean of Night


The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

GREGORY BENFORD

Foundation's Fear