Gregory Benford
Gregory Benford
Gregory Benfordis an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. He is also a contributing editor of Reason magazine...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 January 1941
CountryUnited States of America
technology doe
Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.
technology magic
Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
pain ignorance everyday
You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's pain and harshness and wretched dreariness with - no not with certainty but with an ignorance you could live with. Deep ignorance, but still a kind that knew its limits. The limits were crucial.
pleasure results made
It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.
firsts theory crank
(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.
dream frustration luxury
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.
mistake biggest-mistake
The biggest mistake is being too afraid of making one.
carry chemical complex drives era fossil pressures unlike work
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.
deliver occupy perhaps resources vast
To deliver vast new resources to humanity, we must pioneer and occupy the moon, Mars, and perhaps even beyond.
columns letter phenomenon science
Around 1930, a small new phenomenon arose in Depression-ridden America, spawned out of the letter columns in science fiction magazines: fandom.
artificial left wired
I have an artificial left shoulder, wired back together after a softball accident.
best felt
I've always felt that specialization is best left to the insects.
art obscene
In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.
appeared depiction earliest fiction robert science tale
The earliest depiction of libertarian eugenics may have appeared in a science fiction novel, Robert Heinlein's 1942 tale 'Beyond This Horizon.'