Quotes by Gregory Benford

“Civilization was a defense against natures raw power.”

“To be a leader meant that sometimes you had to look away from the pain”

“Between people long-married there is a diplomacy of the eyes”

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

“But a lady forced is never a lady won”

“Redwing had read somewhere that one of his favourite writers, Ernest Hemingway, had been asked what was the best training for a novelist. He had said an unhappy childhood. Redwing had enjoyed a fin...”

“Human life is a voyage on a sea of meaning, not a net of information.”

“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.”

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

“Humans and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. With aliens, that has to go double.”

“I know that humans are fond of seeing their kind rendered in other media.”

“Aging is mostly the failure to repair.”

“Very little useful science got done in the space station. NASA never did the experiments needed to develop the technologies required for a genuine interplanetary expedition: centrifugal gravity to ...”

“Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the internal combustion engine practical - thus, the car and airplane, leading inevitably to the rocket a...”

“The thing that most critics miss about Faulkner is that his famous storytelling voice is, in fact, a standard Southern storytelling voice that is typical of the Gulf Coast - Mississippi, Alabama an...”

“It turns out that if you optimize the performance of a car and of an airplane, they are very far away in terms of mechanical features. So you can make a flying car. But they are not very good plane...”

“Fame is the accumulation of misunderstandings around a well-known name”

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

“As fandom grew more variegated, genzines reflected a broadening of interests, carrying personal columns of humor and reflection, science articles, amateur fiction, stylish gossip, and inevitably, t...”

“Civilization was a defense against nature’s raw power.”