# Gregory Benford

- Quotes: 177
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford

## Books

- [Against Infinity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/against-infinity.md) — 11 quotes
- [Artifact](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/artifact.md) — 15 quotes
- [Beyond Infinity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/beyond-infinity.md) — 31 quotes
- [Cosm](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/cosm.md) — 53 quotes
- [In Alien Flesh](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/in-alien-flesh.md) — 14 quotes
- [In the Ocean of Night](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/in-the-ocean-of-night.md) — 2 quotes
- [The Martian Race](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/the-martian-race.md) — 9 quotes
- [The Sunborn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/the-sunborn.md) — 20 quotes
- [Timescape](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/timescape.md) — 22 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> Quantum uncertainty, chaos—these forever screen precise knowledge of the future from our eyes.

p. 386 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/beyond-infinity/quantum-uncertainty-chaos-these.md)

> Uncompromising zeal doesn’t look in the mirror much.

p. 189 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/beyond-infinity/uncompromising-zeal-doesnt.md)

> You need friends to keep you on your feet, and enemies to keep you on your toes.

p. 104 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/beyond-infinity/you-need-friends.md)

> “So many people, close-packed.”
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> “Your kind apparently enjoys the crowding.”
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> “I…I can sort of see why it might be exciting. Like a never-ending party.”
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> Speaker grimaced. “Just the sort of horror I imagined, yes.”

p. 241 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/beyond-infinity/so-many-people.md)

> “Quite patently artificial,” she said.
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> “Looks like it to me, and I’m just a physicist.”
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> “I thought you were an engineer-pilot.”
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> “Hey, physicists can do anything.”
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> “Um. So they think. But not biology…”

p. 137 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/the-sunborn/quite-patently-artificial.md)

> Nature’s nature was change. It was not a museum.

p. 250 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/beyond-infinity/natures-nature-was.md)

> “The price of such seeing will be death,” Seeker said quietly.
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> She blinked. “We’ve done fine so far.”
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> “A numerical series can have many terms yet be finite.”

p. 276 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/beyond-infinity/the-price-of-such.md)

> “How can you shrug off history?”…
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> “By studied neglect.”

p. 106 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/beyond-infinity/how-can-you.md)

> Propaganda of sufficient age became art.

p. 204 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/beyond-infinity/propaganda-of-sufficient.md)

> 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 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/beyond-infinity/individual-recollections-of-the.md)

> Evolution was still at work, pruning the failures from the gene pool with unblinking patience.

p. 234 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/beyond-infinity/evolution-was-still.md)

> When you know nothing, you are free to hope.

p. 264 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/beyond-infinity/when-you-know.md)