American author & astrophysicist (1941- )
Talkers never acted when they could talk.
GREGORY BENFORD
"Redeemer", In Alien Flesh
People said that mathematicians were unworldly, and yammered on about how Einstein couldn't make correct change. Nonsense. Einstein just didn't give a damn. It was the subtle, the beautiful that concerned him.
GREGORY BENFORD
Artifact
Once introduced into this world, life would never leave--there was no end to the explosive, consuming, voracious lust of long chain molecules to link and match and make of themselves yet more and more and again more.
GREGORY BENFORD
Against Infinity
They will do anything for the worker, except become one.
GREGORY BENFORD
Timescape
Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.
GREGORY BENFORD
afterword, Timescape
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
GREGORY BENFORD
Foundation's Fear
Humans and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. With aliens, that has to go double.
GREGORY BENFORD
Shipstar
Boundaries got redrawn at the point of a sword, and the legal frame followed.
GREGORY BENFORD
The Man Who Sold the Stars
Never trust in theories, m'lad, if they're thought up by types who work in offices.
GREGORY BENFORD
Sailing Bright Eternity
Look, it's not love that makes the world go round, it's inertia.
GREGORY BENFORD
In the Ocean of Night