Gregory Benford Quotes

As Kurt Vonnegut pointed out in his first novel, Player Piano, some people love problem-solving and tinkering—and that is the final, irreducible driver of human history. Wars and faiths and leaders come and go, but the problem-solvers’ slow, steady work is the fulcrum upon which history turns.

You know, my dear, you're wrong that suffering ennobles people." She'd stopped to massage her hip, wincing. "It simply makes one cross.

Talkers never acted when they could talk.

She could not understand why people feared new ideas. She was frightened by the old ones.

Wars don’t determine who’s right, only who’s left.

When you have a Ph. D., you call them hypotheses, not guesses.

She had once looked up the term ‘lawyer’ and found it was someone who helped you fight laws.

I started out with nothing and still have most of it left.

—Y’know, fact that nobody understands you doesn’t mean you’re some kinda genius.

Science is about continuity of ideas, a web of connections.

While politicians wrangled on the front pages of our newspapers, quiet revolutions looked within. Only occasionally did the news I thought most notable make the front page. All of it hinged on the steady building of connections which marks modern science.