Greg Bear Quotes

American writer best known for science fiction (1951–2022)

Gregory Dale Bears (August 20, 1951 – November 19, 2022) was an American writer and illustrator best known for science fiction. His work has covered themes of galactic conflict, artificial universes, consciousness and cultural practices, and accelerated evolution.

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3. “I’m going to take you out tonight,” he said. “Another Heisenberg dinner.”
“What’s that?”
“Uncertainty,” Edward said crisply. “We know where we are going, but not what we are going to eat. Or vice versa.”
“Sounds wonderful. Which car?”
“The Quantum, of course.”
“Oh, Lord. We just had the speedometer fixed.”
“And the steering went out?”
“Shh! It’s still working. We’re cheating.”

There may be no such thing as prescience, but honed instincts are crucial in our game.

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.”

Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten.
It was in the blood, the flesh,
And now it is forever.

I felt myself growing older. I didn’t see it as an improvement.

Ours is an age of social anger.

With a little ceremony, and not much in the way of clothing left to remove, we celebrated still being alive.

“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.

The sorrow never dies; it is merely nacred by time.