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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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