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Once introduced into this world, life would never leave—there was no end to the explosive, consuming, voracious lust of long chain molecules to link and match and make of themselves yet more and more and again more.
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They will do anything for the worker, except become one.
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Major Sánchez grunted. Nice word, 'trivial.' Means you got it—cojones—you got no worry. If you don't—
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Manuel stared at the place where Piet had been. The man he had known so little would now lie in this place far beyond the moon of Islam and the cross of Rome and the hammer of Marx, in a territory open and without plan, beyond man and his encasing theories, his filters, beyond the closed rooms of the civilized mind.
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The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail.
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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.
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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.
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At least being prosperous set one apart in England; here it guaranteed nothing, not even taste.
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It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.
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Somehow to them, the press was always the judge of things scientific.
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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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