Gregory Benford Quotes - Page 2

• (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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• The peers just fill the air with their speeches.""And from what I've seen, vice versa.

  Gregory Benford

  Air, Vices, Peers

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

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

  Gregory Benford

  Taste, England, Prosperous

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

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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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• 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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• 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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