Gregory Benford Short Quotes

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Disintegration of structure equals information loss.

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

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There's plenty—
Plenty is exactly what there's none of.

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People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.

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Free will again, Cathy said.
Or free won't, Peterson said mildly.

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

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

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Every boy knows he is immortal, but his parents, they are not so sure.

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Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people apologize to corpses?

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

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

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

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Soldiers for equality, uh? Glad you warned me. I'd have thought you were just thieves.

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

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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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Major Sánchez grunted. Nice word, 'trivial.' Means you got it—cojones—you got no worry. If you don't—

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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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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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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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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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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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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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