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There was something about such reflex stupidity that never failed to irritate him.
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Disintegration of structure equals information loss.
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Soldiers for equality, uh? Glad you warned me. I'd have thought you were just thieves.
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All right, he thought, so the details were not perfect. But maybe, in a sense, that was part of the magic, too.
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Man doesn't have to take a gamble just 'cause it's there. You got to learn that.
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Organic forms are in the universe of things and also reside in the universe of essences. There we cannot go. … You are a spontaneous product of the universe of things. We are not. This seems to give you … windows. It was difficult for me to monitor your domestic transmissions, they fill up with branches, spontaneous paths, nuances…
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You got to learn to wait people out. Hear what they got to say. Not enough to have a majority rule, y'know. Otherwise, the minority won't be convinced and they won't support the plan. No point havin' people at your elbow who're against what you're doin'. So we just got to talk it out Quaker-style till ever'body agrees. More efficient in the long run.
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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.
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Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people apologize to corpses?
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You'll never get it to follow orders.
Slaves follow orders, Colonel. You want something done a slave can't, you don't ask for a slave to do it.
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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.
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That thing doesn't care about you. It won't reward you when you take risks. It is simply indifferent. That's the fact about it that most never learn. They hate it and fear it and finally ignore it. Because of that. It would be easier if it hated us. Maybe even if it hunted us. But it doesn't care. Remember.
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Free will again, Cathy said.
Or free won't, Peterson said mildly.
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There's plenty—
Plenty is exactly what there's none of.
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No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.
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Every boy knows he is immortal, but his parents, they are not so sure.
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Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.
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People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.
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Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.
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The peers just fill the air with their speeches.
And from what I've seen, vice versa.
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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.
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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.
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(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.
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If you were damned certain you weren't looking for something, there was a very good chance you wouldn't see it.
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In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a passive state. People who give up, die.
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Born:
January 30, 1941
(age 83)
Bio:
Gregory Benford 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. He is also a contributing editor of Reason magazine.
Known for:
Timescape (1980)
In the Ocean of Night (1977)
Bowl of Heaven (2012)
Great Sky River (1987)
Across the Sea of Suns (1984)
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