American author & astrophysicist (1941- )
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
GREGORY BENFORD
Foundation's Fear
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.
GREGORY BENFORD
Timescape
Never trust in theories, m'lad, if they're thought up by types who work in offices.
GREGORY BENFORD
Sailing Bright Eternity
No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.
GREGORY BENFORD
Timescape
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.
GREGORY BENFORD
Against Infinity
Look, it's not love that makes the world go round, it's inertia.
GREGORY BENFORD
In the Ocean of Night
Religions do not teach doubt.
GREGORY BENFORD
Timescape
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.
GREGORY BENFORD
afterword, Timescape
Talkers never acted when they could talk.
GREGORY BENFORD
"Redeemer", In Alien Flesh
People said that mathematicians were unworldly, and yammered on about how Einstein couldn't make correct change. Nonsense. Einstein just didn't give a damn. It was the subtle, the beautiful that concerned him.
GREGORY BENFORD
Artifact