Gregory Benford Quotes

“Diversity” had come to mean Balkanization.

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

Her eyes flipped down through the usual scandal, gossip, and politics, noting that there didn’t seem to be much difference between them anymore.

The desire to find something could provoke what she called “wantum mechanics,” fishing a result out of nothing but noise.

Archeology is mostly a process of making associations between objects, and every discovery opens up possible resonances with things we already have. Sometimes, simply wandering through a museum or a site can open your eyes.

Whole world is sitting on ass, watching glorious Twenty-first century on TV.

Science was a systematic way to avoid fooling yourself, after all.

He’s an order of magnitude better than mere diplomats. He’s a conniver.

Manufacturing creates wealth, services distribute it.

Schools praised diversity but were culturally the same. Different skin color, same opinions.

You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life’s pain and harshness and wretched dreariness with — no not with certainty but with an ignorance you could live with. Deep ignorance, but still a kind that knew its limits. The limits were crucial.

Only fools get to join.

Would an alien outsider judge America’s performance by My Lai and Wounded Knee or by Lincoln and Jefferson?

Prolonged exposure to journalists made her distrust any news report; they got matters wrong so casually, even the simple ones.

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