Gregory Benford Quotes

I think," Jordin said mildly, "a professional biologist would label that aggressive behavior.

A damned big clue, but pointing at what? When in doubt, get some numbers.

Somehow to them, the press was always the judge of things scientific.

Marches don’t stop markets.

The role of boredom in human history is underrated.

Ummm," Alicia said, trying to be polite. "Still sounds like we're just making this up as we go along." "We are." Max grinned. "Invent, then check. It's really the only way to make progress.

Still, Claire hated Charlotte Brontë’s comment that she would have given all her talent to be beautiful. That condemned you always to play somebody else’s game—and, when your looks failed—finally to lose.

Thing about crazies is, they’re crazy. You can’t even understand them in retrospect.

Manuel stared at the place where Piet had been. The man he had known so little would now lie in this place far beyond the moon of Islam and the cross of Rome and the hammer of Marx, in a territory open and without plan, beyond man and his encasing theories, his filters, beyond the closed rooms of the civilized mind.

She always dressed well, but he recognized the signs of insecurity; certitude was inversely proportional to the amount of makeup.

Well, this was what dads were for: saying the unsayable when you needed it.

Ours is not to reason why, ours is to measure and report—the experimenter’s credo.

Information wants to be free—remember that old saw? Some truth to it, only it’s backwards. This isn’t an information economy—we’re drowning in that—it’s an attention economy. That’s what everybody’s vying for.

Law of the universe," she said. "The longer the menu description, the worse the food.

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