Gregory Benford Quotes

• To shine is better than to reflect.

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  Shining

  Gregory Benford (2010). “Timescape”, p.220, Spectra

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• Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

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  Technology, Doe

  "Foundation's Fear". Book by Gregory Benford, 1997.

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• If you are losing at a game, change the game.

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  Games, Losing, Clarity

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

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  Workers

  Gregory Benford (2010). “Timescape”, p.46, Spectra

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• The biggest mistake is being too afraid of making one.

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  Mistake, Biggest Mistake

  Gregory Benford, Larry Niven (2014). “Shipstar: A Science Fiction Novel”, p.402, Macmillan

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• Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available

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  Real, Passion, Information

  Gregory Benford (2010). “Timescape”, p.182, Spectra

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• I don't get even, I get odder.

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• Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.

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  Moving, Mean, Space

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• Disintegration of structure equals information loss.

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  Loss, Information, Structure

  Gregory Benford (1977). “In the Ocean of Night: A Novel”, Dial Press

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• You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's pain and harshness and wretched dreariness with - no not with certainty but with an ignorance you could live with. Deep ignorance, but still a kind that knew its limits. The limits were crucial.

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  Pain, Ignorance, Everyday

  "Timescape". Book by Gregory Benford, 1980.

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• There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities - potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry - that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.

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  Real, Math, Iron

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• Religions do not teach doubt.

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  Doubt, Teach

  Gregory Benford (2010). “Timescape”, p.322, Spectra

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• 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.

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  Dream, Frustration, Luxury

  Gregory Benford (2010). “Timescape”, p.136, Spectra

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• One of the laws of nature," Gordon said, "is that half the people have got to be below average.""For a Gaussian distribution, yeah," Cooper said. "Sad, though.

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  Average, Law, People

  Gregory Benford (2010). “Timescape”, p.234, Spectra

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• SF is a controlled way to think and dream about the future. An integration of the mood and attitude of science (the objective universe) with the fears and hopes that spring from the unconscious. Anything that turns you and your social context, the social you, inside out. Nightmares and visions, always outlined by the barely possible.

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  Dream, Attitude, Spring

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• People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.

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  Self, People, Identity

  Gregory Benford (1997). “Foundation's Fear”, Harper Prism

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• Ugliness is nature's contraceptive.

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  Contraceptives, Ugliness

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• 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.

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  Voice, Forever, Literature

  "Timescape". Book by Gregory Benford, 1980.

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• When the chemistry is right, all the experiments work.

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  Chemistry, Experiments

  Larry Niven, Gregory Bentham, Gregory Benford (2015). “Shipstar”, p.60, Titan Books

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• Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.

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  Welfare, Economics, Modern

  Gregory Benford (2010). “Timescape”, p.445, Spectra

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• (Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.

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  Firsts, Crank, Theory

  Gregory Benford (2010). “Timescape”, p.235, Spectra

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• At least being prosperous set one apart in England; here it guaranteed nothing, not even taste.

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  Taste, England, Prosperous

  Gregory Benford (2010). “Timescape”, p.134, Spectra

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• Jeff Carver is a hard sf writer who gets it right-his science and his people are equally convincing. NEPTUNE CROSSING combines his strengths, from a chilling look at alien machine intelligence, to cutting-edge chaos theory, to the pangs of finite humans in the face of the infinite. If you like intriguing ideas delivered in an exciting plot, this is your meat.

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  Cutting, Ideas, People

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• In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a passive state. People who give up, die.

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  Giving Up, People, Acting

  Gregory Benford, Larry Niven (2012). “Bowl of Heaven”, p.175, Macmillan

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• The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail.

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  Details, Tides, Nations

  "Timescape". Book by Gregory Benford, 1980.

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