Gregory Benford Quotes

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• Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.
• Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
• 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.
• When the chemistry is right, all the experiments work.
• Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available
• The biggest mistake is being too afraid of making one.
• To shine is better than to reflect.
• Peter Watts delivers-solid, inventive hard sf about the deep sea, but as we've never seen before. This moves like the wind.
• SF is a controlled way to think and dream about the future. An integration of the mood and attitude of science (the objective universe) with…
• Jeff Carver is a hard sf writer who gets it right-his science and his people are equally convincing. NEPTUNE CROSSING combines his strengths, from a…
• There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a…
• If you are losing at a game, change the game.
• Space travel leading to skylife is vital to human survival, because the question is not whether we will be hit by an asteroid, but when.…

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