# Quote — Gregory Benford, The Martian Race

> Science was a systematic way to avoid fooling yourself, after all.

- Author: [Gregory Benford](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford.md)
- Book: [The Martian Race](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/the-martian-race.md)
- Page: 337
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gregory_Benford#The_Martian_Race_(1999)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/the-martian-race/science-was-a-systematic

## More from this book

> “Viktor! Don’t tell me you cheated! A gentleman doesn’t cheat at cards.”
>
> “Am captain, not gentleman.”

p. 286 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/the-martian-race/viktor-dont-tell.md)

> Whole world is sitting on ass, watching glorious Twenty-first century on TV.

p. 30 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/the-martian-race/whole-world-is-sitting.md)

> “It was just good luck, last minute luck.”
>
> “Your ‘luck’ was mostly sweat and intuition.”

p. 159 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/the-martian-race/it-was-just.md)