Gregory Benford
Quotes
Quantum uncertainty, chaos—these forever screen precise knowledge of the future from our eyes.
p. 386
Uncompromising zeal doesn’t look in the mirror much.
p. 189
You need friends to keep you on your feet, and enemies to keep you on your toes.
p. 104
“So many people, close-packed.”
“Your kind apparently enjoys the crowding.”
“I…I can sort of see why it might be exciting. Like a never-ending party.”
Speaker grimaced. “Just the sort of horror I imagined, yes.”
p. 241
“Quite patently artificial,” she said.
“Looks like it to me, and I’m just a physicist.”
“I thought you were an engineer-pilot.”
“Hey, physicists can do anything.”
“Um. So they think. But not biology…”
p. 137
Nature’s nature was change. It was not a museum.
p. 250
“The price of such seeing will be death,” Seeker said quietly.
She blinked. “We’ve done fine so far.”
“A numerical series can have many terms yet be finite.”
p. 276
“How can you shrug off history?”…
“By studied neglect.”
p. 106
Propaganda of sufficient age became art.
p. 204
Individual recollections of the past are easily shaped by others. After a while they need have little bearing on the once-lived events.
p. 119
Evolution was still at work, pruning the failures from the gene pool with unblinking patience.
p. 234
When you know nothing, you are free to hope.
p. 264
