# Timescape

- Author: [Gregory Benford](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford.md)
- Quotes: 22
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/timescape

## Quotes

> It was an example of what he thought of as the Law of Controversy: Passion was inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.

p. 182 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/timescape/it-was-an-example.md)

> Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury — or at least comfort — so there’s a lot of frustration and resentment when the dream craps out.

p. 136 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/timescape/everybody-feels-he-has.md)

> To shine is better than to reflect.

p. 220 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/timescape/to-shine-is-better.md)

> Yes, perhaps that was it. For decades now the picture of the world painted by the scientists had become strange, distant, unbelievable. Far easier, then, to ignore it than try to understand. Things were too complicated. Why bother? Turn on the telly, luv. Right.

p. 146 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/timescape/yes-perhaps-that.md)

> No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.

p. 395 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/timescape/no-matter-how.md)

> Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.

p. 498 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/timescape/science-is-like.md)

> It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

p. 411 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/timescape/it-was-getting.md)

> Only fools get to join.

p. 110 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/timescape/only-fools-get.md)

> Somehow to them, the press was always the judge of things scientific.

p. 236 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/timescape/somehow-to-them.md)

> At least being prosperous set one apart in England; here it guaranteed nothing, not even taste.

p. 134 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/timescape/at-least-being.md)

> You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life’s pain and harshness and wretched dreariness with — no not with certainty but with an ignorance you could live with. Deep ignorance, but still a kind that knew its limits. The limits were crucial.

p. 360 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/timescape/you-had-to-form.md)

> “Free will again,” Cathy said.
>
> “Or free won’t,” Peterson said mildly.

p. 291 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/timescape/free-will-again.md)

> The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail.

p. 441 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/timescape/the-personal-was.md)

> Religions do not teach doubt.

p. 322 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/timescape/religions-do-not.md)

> If you were damned certain you weren’t looking for something, there was a very good chance you wouldn’t see it.

p. 305 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/timescape/if-you-were.md)

> “One of the laws of nature,” Gordon said, “is that half the people have got to be below average.”
>
> ”For a Gaussian distribution, yeah,” Cooper said. “Sad, though.”

p. 234 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/timescape/one-of-the.md)

> All right, he thought, so the details were not perfect. But maybe, in a sense, that was part of the magic, too.

p. 229 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/timescape/all-right-he-thought.md)

> Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.

p. 445 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/timescape/modern-economics-and.md)

> There was something about such reflex stupidity that never failed to irritate him.

p. 231 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/timescape/there-was-something.md)

> (Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.

p. 235 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/timescape/crank-theories-always.md)

> They will do anything for the worker, except become one.

p. 46 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/timescape/they-will-do-anything.md)

> “The peers just fill the air with their speeches.”
>
> “And from what I've seen, vice versa.”

p. 46 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/timescape/the-peers-just.md)