GREGORY BENFORD QUOTES III

American author & astrophysicist (1941- )

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


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

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Shipstar


The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

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Foundation's Fear


Once introduced into this world, life would never leave--there was no end to the explosive, consuming, voracious lust of long chain molecules to link and match and make of themselves yet more and more and again more.

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Against Infinity


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

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The Man Who Sold the Stars


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

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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


Disintegration of structure equals information loss.

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In the Ocean of Night


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

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In the Ocean of Night


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

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Sailing Bright Eternity