# Quote — Gregory Benford, Artifact

> That was what drew him to mathematics. Not because it was rarefied, but because it probed to the subtle, deeper reality. People said that mathematicians were unworldly, and yammered on about how Einstein couldn’t make correct change. Nonsense. Einstein just didn’t give a damn. It was the subtle, the beautiful that concerned him.

- Author: [Gregory Benford](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford.md)
- Book: [Artifact](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/artifact.md)
- Page: 76
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gregory_Benford#Artifact_(1985)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/artifact/that-was-what

## More from this book

> This was what never failed to stir her—the unfathomable gulf between today’s thinking and the way the ancients thought. They were truly alien, not merely innocent agrarians with a foolish faith.

p. 246 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/artifact/this-was-what.md)

> Just because something’s crazy, doesn’t mean it’s wrong.

p. 228 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/artifact/just-because-somethings.md)

> Still, Claire hated Charlotte Brontë’s comment that she would have given all her talent to be beautiful. That condemned you always to play somebody else’s game—and, when your looks failed—finally to lose.

p. 245 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/artifact/still-claire-hated.md)