Greg Bear Quotes

I sometimes think we deserve to die, we’re all so goddamned stupid.

Having one’s eyes opened doesn’t make one grateful.

We’ve been fighting for so long, we’ve begun to lose ourselves. And it’s getting worse.

8. “It’s not impossible,” Minelli said.
“No,” Edward admitted, “but it’s paranoid as hell, and that’s the last thing we need, more fear.”

Can’t own a woman, Mike. Wonderful companions, can’t own them.

4. “You’re a romantic, aren’t you?” she said.
“I suppose I am.”
“I am too. The silliest people in the world are romantics.”

I explored new territory and described it. I did not create it. Don’t blame the conduit for the lightning.

More and more I am nothing without someone. To be alone is to be in bad company.

Eccentricity is more than affectation to a poet. It’s a necessity.

We are born in ignorance, we die in ignorance, but maybe sometimes we learn something important and pass it along to others before we die. Or we write it down in a little book.

The battle was over. There were no victors.

Information can be stored even more compactly than in molecular memory. It can be stored in the structure of space-time. What is matter, after all, but a standing-wave of information in the vacuum?

The future seemed not just dangerous, not just bleak; it seemed incomprehensible.

“Maybe you administrators can work it all out in the council.”
You administrators. That put us in our place. Paper pushers, bureaucrats, politicians. Cut the politics. We were the ones who stood in the way of the scientist’s goal of unrestrained research and intellection.

Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.