# Quote — Gregory Benford, In Alien Flesh

> But the answers come when they will, one piece at a time.

- Author: [Gregory Benford](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford.md)
- Book: [In Alien Flesh](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/in-alien-flesh.md)
- Page: 232
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/in-alien-flesh/but-the-answers

## More from this book

> I would have to look, try to find a bridge that would make plausible what I knew but could scarcely prove. The standards of science are austere, unforgiving—and who would have it differently? I would have to hedge, to take one step back for each two forward, to compare and suggest and contrast, always sticking close to the data. And despite what I thought I knew now, the data would have to lead, they would have to show the way.

p. 244 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/in-alien-flesh/i-would-have.md)

> Talkers never acted when they could talk.

p. 53 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/in-alien-flesh/talkers-never-acted.md)

> 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.

p. 104 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/in-alien-flesh/as-kurt-vonnegut.md)