Gregory Benford Quotes (1941-)

Physicist, Author, Politician

About Gregory Benford

Gregory Benford (born January 30, 1941, in Mobile, Alabama) is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine.

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β€œExercise erased cares.”
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β€œMarches don’t stop markets.”
β€œReligions do not teach doubt.”
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β€œData always overruled theory.”
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β€œTo shine is better than to reflect.”
β€œNothing is eternalβ€”including prisons.”
β€œOnly fools get to join.”
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β€œPropaganda of sufficient age became art.”
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β€œTalkers never acted when they could talk.”
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β€œNot sure. When don’t know, do experiment.”
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β€œWhen you know nothing, you are free to hope.”
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β€œHistory held counterexamples to any facile rule.”
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β€œTrouble comes looking for you if you’re a fool.”
β€œNature’s nature was change. It was not a museum.”
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β€œThe role of boredom in human history is underrated.”
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β€œMaybe is not a theory, you know, it is merely maybe.”
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β€œManufacturing creates wealth, services distribute it.”
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β€œUncompromising zeal doesn’t look in the mirror much.”
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β€œCurious, how any tool properly made acquires a beauty.”
β€œWars don’t determine who’s right, only who’s left.”
β€œThey will do anything for the worker, except become one.”
β€œThe problem with the unknown was its lack of road signs.”
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β€œIdeas about existence pale, beside the fact of existence.”
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β€œBut the answers come when they will, one piece at a time.”
β€œGreat error, seen up close, can look like true greatness.”
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Gregory Benford on Science 2 quotes

β€œScience is about continuity of ideas, a web of connections.”
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Gregory Benford on History

β€œHistory held counterexamples to any facile rule.”
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Gregory Benford on Fools

β€œTrouble comes looking for you if you’re a fool.”
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Gregory Benford on Nature

β€œNature’s nature was change. It was not a museum.”
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Gregory Benford on Music

β€œToday’s music has all the variety of a jackhammer.”
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Gregory Benford on Zeal

β€œUncompromising zeal doesn’t look in the mirror much.”

Gregory Benford on Morality

β€œTo us, most human morality is carefully thought-through self-congratulation.”
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Gregory Benford on Mathematics

β€œRuth felt that math was like sexβ€”get all you can, but best not done in public.”
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Gregory Benford on Emotions

β€œβ€œYou humans have emotions,” Seeker said slowly, β€œbut more often emotions have you.””
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Gregory Benford on Evolution

β€œEvolution was still at work, pruning the failures from the gene pool with unblinking patience.”
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Gregory Benford on Lawyers

β€œShe had once looked up the term β€˜lawyer’ and found it was someone who helped you fight laws.”
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Gregory Benford on Luck

β€œβ€œIt was just good luck, last minute luck.” β€œYour β€˜luck’ was mostly sweat and intuition.””
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Gregory Benford on Arthur C. Clarke

β€œAny technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.”
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Gregory Benford on Olaf Stapledon

β€œHis Marxism, which remained his only irrational faith throughout his life, told him that surely the United States could never be a positive influence.”
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About Gregory Benford

Gregory Benford (born January 30, 1941, in Mobile, Alabama) is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine.