GREGORY BENFORD QUOTES III

American author & astrophysicist (1941- )

He didn't regret growing older, it was a privilege denied to many.

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The Man Who Sold the Stars


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

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Shipstar


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.

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Artifact


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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afterword, Timescape

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Talkers never acted when they could talk.

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"Redeemer", In Alien Flesh


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

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Sailing Bright Eternity


The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

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Foundation's Fear


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

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Timescape


Boundaries got redrawn at the point of a sword, and the legal frame followed.

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The Man Who Sold the Stars


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

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In the Ocean of Night