Gregory Benford Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Gregory Benford

  Cutting, Ideas, People

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

  Gregory Benford

  Firsts, Crank, Theory

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

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• Space travel leading to skylife is vital to human survival, because the question is not whether we will be hit by an asteroid, but when. A planetary culture that does not develop spacefaring is courting suicide. All our history, all our social progress and growing insight will be for nothing if we perish. No risk of this kind, however small it might be argued to be, is worth taking, and no cost to prevent it is too great. No level of risk is acceptable when it comes to all or nothing survival.

  Gregory Benford

  Suicide, Space, Risk

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• Peter Watts delivers-solid, inventive hard sf about the deep sea, but as we've never seen before. This moves like the wind.

  Gregory Benford

  Moving, Wind, Sea

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• It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

  Gregory Benford

  Pleasure, Made, Results

  "Timescape". Book by Gregory Benford, 1980.

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• Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.

  Gregory Benford

  Technology, Magic

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