Gregory Benford Quotes

Inside, the place had enough bare concrete and ribbed ducts and stark lighting to be a surrealist theme bar. Very hip but still just another joint where luncheon was lunch for six bucks extra.

One of the laws of nature," Gordon said, "is that half the people have got to be below average." "For a Gaussian distribution, yeah," Cooper said. "Sad, though.

Soldiers for equality, uh? Glad you warned me. I’d have thought you were just thieves.

Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

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

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

That’s absurd. This is real life, not some tabloid fantasy.

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

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

To believe anything so far-fetched, I’d have to see a solid calculation.

There were the usual anxieties, starkly revealing the uneasiness that ordinary intellectuals had with science.

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

Only fools get to join.

None of the above. That’s often the right answer, and bugger the exams.

Every boy knows he is immortal, but his parents, they are not so sure.