Gregory Benford Quotes
But a lady forced is never a lady won
...the movies are most people's exposure to ideas about the future.
To be a leader meant that sometimes you had to look away from the pain
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, is the reverse.
Redwing had read somewhere that one of his favourite writers, Ernest Hemingway, had been asked what ...
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Humans and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. With aliens, that has ...
Show MoreFame is the accumulation of misunderstandings around a well-known name
Between people long-married there is a diplomacy of the eyes
Civilization was a defense against nature’s raw power.
Human life is a voyage on a sea of meaning, not a net of information.
I know that humans are fond of seeing their kind rendered in other media.
In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a...
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Show MoreElectromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the inte...
Show MoreAging is mostly the failure to repair.
Very little useful science got done in the space station. NASA never did the experiments needed to d...
Show MoreThe thing that most critics miss about Faulkner is that his famous storytelling voice is, in fact, a...
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