Gregory Benford Quotes
It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.
Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.
(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.
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.
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.
Peter Watts delivers-solid, inventive hard sf about the deep sea, but as we've never seen before. This moves like the wind.
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.
At least being prosperous set one apart in England; here it guaranteed nothing, not even taste.
The peers just fill the air with their speeches.""And from what I've seen, vice versa.
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.
...the movies are most people's exposure to ideas about the future.
Fame is the accumulation of misunderstandings around a well-known name
I know that humans are fond of seeing their kind rendered in other media.
Humans and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. With aliens, that has to go double.
Human life is a voyage on a sea of meaning, not a net of information.
To be a leader meant that sometimes you had to look away from the pain
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, is the reverse.