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It's a hard man who's only just, and a sad man who's only wise. — Gregory Benford

Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced. — Gregory Benford

Experience shows that if you put more ethicists on a problem, you can end up with more problems. — Gregory Benford

We hope we can slow or possibly reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer's. — Gregory Benford

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

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

A view of nature as dense and nonlinear is at the core of our contemporary science. Process and order emerge subtly. — Gregory Benford

emerges from logic, not desire. — Gregory Benford

How human, to ruminate even when in mortal danger — Gregory Benford

The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail. — Gregory Benford

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

But a lady forced is never a lady won — Gregory Benford

Karl remembered his great truth, learned in the project: Never pass by a chance to shut up. — Gregory Benford

To be a leader meant that sometimes you had to look away from the pain — Gregory Benford

To deliver vast new resources to humanity, we must pioneer and occupy the moon, Mars, and perhaps even beyond. — Gregory Benford

I like audacious ideas. — Gregory Benford

Around 1930, a small new phenomenon arose in Depression-ridden America, spawned out of the letter columns in science fiction magazines: fandom. — Gregory Benford

No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal. — Gregory Benford

Like immense time-binding discussions, genres allow ideas to be developed and traded, and for variations to be spun down through decades. — Gregory Benford

The universe of artifacts was a human one. — Gregory Benford

Very carefully he thought about nothing. — Gregory Benford

Yet how could the Empire possibly have kept itself stable, using such crude creatures as humans? — Gregory Benford

Fame is the accumulation of misunderstandings around a well-known name — Gregory Benford

If you are losing at a game, change the game. — Gregory Benford

Civilization was a defense against nature's raw power. — Gregory Benford

Terrors can be mirrors, too. — Gregory Benford

If humans were good at anything, he thought, it was sure as hell good old running. — Gregory Benford

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

Disintegration of structure equals information loss. — Gregory Benford

I'm a very big Faulkner fan 'cause I'm a Southerner. — Gregory Benford

Certainly I see no reason why society should prevent grieving parents from having a baby cloned from the cells of a dead child if they wish. — Gregory Benford

If you think there is good in everybody, you haven't met everybody. — Gregory Benford

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The people who built the space program - both Soviet and U.S. - were readers of science fiction. — Gregory Benford

Sour grapes, the champagne of the intelligentsia. — Gregory Benford

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. — Gregory Benford

The movies are most people's exposure to ideas about the future. — Gregory Benford

Remember that people break down, too, not just machinery. — Gregory Benford

Mathematics cannot handle physical quantities like density that literally go to infinity. — Gregory Benford

The world is neither running down nor deterministic, and a strict division of order versus chaos is just wrong. — Gregory Benford

Religions do not teach doubt. — Gregory Benford

Scientists require apparatus, but mathists splendidly require only writing tools and erasers. Better, philosophers do not even need erasers — Gregory Benford

Fandom grew first through individual correspondence. It was cheap and quick, continent-wide contact for a penny stamp. — Gregory Benford

catch me with an unexpected result, — Gregory Benford

Between people long-married there is a diplomacy of the eyes — Gregory Benford

People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out. — Gregory Benford

Sometimes being human is harder than it looks. — Gregory Benford

Aging is mostly the failure to repair. — Gregory Benford

The physical laws are but the bars of a cage. — Gregory Benford

I know that humans are fond of seeing their kind rendered in other media. — Gregory Benford

amateur gynecology. — Gregory Benford

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. — Gregory Benford

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

Try to get all your posthumous medals in advance. — Gregory Benford

Whatever the life form, evolution selects for economy of resources. — Gregory Benford

Look, it's not love that makes the world go round, it's inertia, — Gregory Benford

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

Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced. — Gregory Benford

I've always felt that specialization is best left to the insects. — Gregory Benford

Nostalgia is eternal for Americans. We are often displaced from our origins and carry anxious memories of that lost past. We fear losing our bearings. — Gregory Benford

Your conflicts reflect subminds in dispute. Such is the human condition — Gregory Benford

Congress came to see NASA primarily as a jobs program, not an exploratory agency. — Gregory Benford

It seemed stupid to be pursued on foot like Homo sapiens sapiens of a hundred thousand years before. — Gregory Benford

abstract himself out of the moment — Gregory Benford

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour. — Gregory Benford

Even their stable societies oscillated between banquets and barbarism. — Gregory Benford

Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder. — Gregory Benford

You don't actually have ideas; ideas have you. — Gregory Benford

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, is the reverse. — Gregory Benford

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

Logic said it was impossible but logic wasn't doing too well here lately, was it? — Gregory Benford

It is the triumph of reason to get on well with those who possess none, — Gregory Benford

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. — Gregory Benford

Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future. — Gregory Benford

My brother Jim and I shared a womb without a view for nine months. — Gregory Benford

Riemann conjecture, — Gregory Benford

Science would lead you to a more interesting life than something else. — Gregory Benford

We've got two parties." "No you do not. You have only the party of the banks, of the money men, and they divide it into two pieces for your voting. — Gregory Benford

Ugliness is nature's contraceptive. — Gregory Benford

Remembering a narrative alters it. — Gregory Benford

True twins share womb chemistry and endure many fateful slings and arrows together. The fabled connection between twins is true in my case. — Gregory Benford

Every professor secretly thinks that what the world needs is a good, solid lecture
from him, of course. — Gregory Benford

As a literature of change driven by technology, science fiction presents religion to a part of the reading public that probably seldom goes to church. — Gregory Benford

Human life is a voyage on a sea of meaning, not a net of information. — Gregory Benford

Cynic' is a word invented by optimists to criticize realists. — Gregory Benford

In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring. — Gregory Benford

In your country the munitions makers ride in their limousines and prepare their wars, while the workers cannot afford new shoes. — Gregory Benford

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, thought as a child, behaved as a child. But when I became a woman, I put away manly things. — Gregory Benford

Right. Isn't that how science works?" Redwing grinned. "If you don't understand, do an experiment. — Gregory Benford

Because the desire to possess the other is ... love — Gregory Benford

To shine is better than to reflect. — Gregory Benford

Immortality is an aim, not a fact. — Gregory Benford

The talk shows I've done are all radio for exactly this reason: I don't want to wear a rubber mask. — Gregory Benford

Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available — Gregory Benford

'Star Trek' is notorious for looting the more thoughtful work of writers for their striking effects, leaving behind most of the thought and subtlety. — Gregory Benford

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

I have an artificial left shoulder, wired back together after a softball accident. — Gregory Benford

When the chemistry is right, all the experiments work. — Gregory Benford

Decide had the same root as suicide and homicide. Decisions felt like little killings. Somebody lost. — Gregory Benford

The biggest mistake is being too afraid of making one. — Gregory Benford