Gregory Benford

Physicist

1941-01-30

Books by Gregory Benford

Again, Dangerous Visions
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Timescape
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In the Ocean of Night
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Quotes by Gregory Benford

Between people long-married there is a diplomacy of the eyes
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To be a leader meant that sometimes you had to look away from the pain
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Civilization was a defense against nature's raw power.
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But a lady forced is never a lady won
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Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, is the reverse.
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Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, is the reverse.
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Civilization was a defense against nature's raw power.
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Between people long-married there is a diplomacy of the eyes
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To be a leader meant that sometimes you had to look away from the pain
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But a lady forced is never a lady won
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To us large creatures, space-time is like the sea seen from an ocean liner, smooth and serene. Up close, though, on tiny scales, it's waves and bubbles. At extremely fine scales, pockets and bubbles of space-time can form at random, sputtering into being, then dissolving.
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I have an artificial left shoulder, wired back together after a softball accident.
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I'm a very big Faulkner fan 'cause I'm a Southerner.
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'Star Trek' is notorious for looting the more thoughtful work of writers for their striking effects, leaving behind most of the thought and subtlety.
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Invoking nature with its implied supremacy ignores that many cultures have fundamentally differing ideas of even what nature is, much less how it should work.
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This was the 1940s; there was no television. It was a different age - it was not swamped by media; it was swamped by reality, and storytelling was a very big art where I came from.
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The talk shows I've done are all radio for exactly this reason: I don't want to wear a rubber mask.
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In temperate zones, winter is the best insecticide; it keeps the bugs in check. The tropics enjoy no such respite, so plants there have developed a wide range of alkaloids that kill off nosy insects and animals.
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Enzymes - plainly the most important biotechnology of our era - already permeate many industrial processes. Unlike fossil fuels, they carry chemical programming which drives complex reactions, are renewable, and work at ordinary pressures and temperatures.
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As we all saw in grade school, once you learn how to read a book, somebody is going to want to write one - that's how authors are made. Once we know how to read our own genetic code, someone is going to want to rewrite that 'text,' tinker with traits - play God, some would say.
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