Gregory Benford Quotes

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.

There was something about such reflex stupidity that never failed to irritate him.

All right, he thought, so the details were not perfect. But maybe, in a sense, that was part of the magic, too.

To shine is better than to reflect.

It was an example of what he thought of as the Law of Controversy: Passion was inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.

Yes, perhaps that was it. For decades now the picture of the world painted by the scientists had become strange, distant, unbelievable. Far easier, then, to ignore it than try to understand. Things were too complicated. Why bother? Turn on the telly, luv. Right.

Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury — or at least comfort — so there’s a lot of frustration and resentment when the dream craps out.

At least being prosperous set one apart in England; here it guaranteed nothing, not even taste.

Only fools get to join.

The peers just fill the air with their speeches." "And from what I've seen, vice versa.

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

Organic forms are in the universe of things and also reside in the universe of essences. There we cannot go. … You are a spontaneous product of the universe of things. We are not. This seems to give you … windows. It was difficult for me to monitor your domestic transmissions, they fill up with branches, spontaneous paths, nuances…

Disintegration of structure equals information loss.

Boundaries got redrawn at the point of a sword, and the legal frame followed.

He didn’t regret growing older, it was a privilege denied to many.