Gregory Benford

“It is one thing to speak of embracing the new, the fresh, the strange. It is another to feel that one is…

— Gregory Benford

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

— Gregory Benford

“pass, shaking his head slightly as if to clear it. “This guy Professor Peierls, he told me that he was convinced the…

— Gregory Benford

“Marthe had reported back from her girl-girl talk that Elisabeth took quite calmly the immense fact that she was now venturing into…

— Gregory Benford

“He saw a small, secondary explosion in the mushroom column. A yellow sphere flared in orange and then smoke swamped it. It…

— Gregory Benford

“September 20, 1963 The telephone jangled him up from a pleasant dream. Something about the war again, but soft and warm and . . .…

— Gregory Benford

“...the movies are most people's exposure to ideas about the future.”

— Gregory Benford

“To Memor philosophy was like a blind being searching a dark room for an unknown, black beast. When philosophy verged into theology,…

— Gregory Benford

“Fermi started to calculate on his own, saying nothing, and in a direct, simple way found the essential point. The ability of…

— Gregory Benford

The peers just fill the air with their speeches.""And from what I've seen, vice versa.

— Gregory Benford

To shine is better than to reflect.

— Gregory Benford

“Then the 1956 Peace Prize went to Eisenhower and Khrushchev for agreeing not to build the hydrogen bomb. That agreement was now…

— Gregory Benford

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

— Gregory Benford

“Freeman murmured at his elbow, “Let him go. I’m working on an even bigger nuclear rocket, called Orion. We might take a…

— Gregory Benford

“Definitions, her grandmother once said, had to be like a fat man's belt - big enough to cover the subject but elastic…

— Gregory Benford

“west. He liked the mild climate, the Sierras making it something like Colorado with a seashore. It took him several years to…

— Gregory Benford

“Remembering a narrative alters it.”

— Gregory Benford

“Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, is the reverse.”

— Gregory Benford

Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

— Gregory Benford

“Karl wondered how many scientists read this science fiction stuff. Maybe they couldn’t get good books out in New Mexico?”

— Gregory Benford

Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.

— Gregory Benford