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“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.”

Gregory Benford book Timescape

Source: Timescape (1980), Chapter 11 (p. 136)

Life , Dreams , Feeling

“If you were damned certain you weren’t looking for something, there was a very good chance you wouldn’t see it.”

Gregory Benford book Timescape

Source: Timescape (1980), Chapter 25 (p. 305)

Chance

“She always dressed well, but he recognized the signs of insecurity; certitude was inversely proportional to the amount of makeup.”

Gregory Benford Artifact

Part 5, Chapter 3 (p. 243)
Artifact (1985)

“Somehow to them, the press was always the judge of things scientific.”

Gregory Benford book Timescape

Source: Timescape (1980), Chapter 17 (p. 236, concerning cranks)

“Only fools get to join.”

Gregory Benford book Timescape

Source: Timescape (1980), Chapter 10 (p. 110, concerning the nuclear club)

Fools

“You know, my dear, you’re wrong that suffering ennobles people.”

Gregory Benford

She’d stopped to massage her hip, wincing. “It simply makes one cross.”
Nooncoming, p. 100 (Originally published in Universe 8, edited by Terry Carr), 1978
In Alien Flesh (1986)

Suffering , People

“He didn’t regret growing older, it was a privilege denied to many.”

Gregory Benford

Source: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Stars (2013), p. 342

“A rich bank account did not mean rich ideas; in fact, often the reverse. The bigger your ass, the more you want to cover it.”

Gregory Benford

Source: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Stars (2013), p. 338

Idea

“Manufacturing creates wealth, services distribute it.”

Gregory Benford

Source: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Stars (2013), p. 320

Wealth

“Marches don’t stop markets.”

Gregory Benford

Source: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Stars (2013), p. 319

“Schools praised diversity but were culturally the same. Different skin color, same opinions.”

Gregory Benford

Source: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Stars (2013), p. 318

School , Color

“Science is about continuity of ideas, a web of connections.”

Gregory Benford

“A Scientist’s Notebook: Life on Mars?” in Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1997, p. 119

Idea , Science

“I started out with nothing and still have most of it left.”

Gregory Benford

Short fiction, Aspects

“Y’know, fact that nobody understands you doesn’t mean you’re some kinda genius.”

Gregory Benford

Short fiction, Aspects

Understanding

“She could not understand why people feared new ideas. She was frightened by the old ones.”

Gregory Benford

Source: Short fiction, Vortex, p. 111

Idea , Fear , People , Understanding

“Wars don’t determine who’s right, only who’s left.”

Gregory Benford

Source: Short fiction, Vortex, p. 110

War

“When you have a Ph. D., you call them hypotheses, not guesses.”

Gregory Benford

Source: Short fiction, Vortex, p. 107

“Science’s success did not need a God to explain it; the world was enough.”

Gregory Benford

Cosm (1998), Part 6, Chapter 3 (p. 325)

God , Success , World , Science

“Data always overruled theory.”

Gregory Benford

Part 2, Chapter 10 (p. 111)
Cosm (1998)

“Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.”

Gregory Benford book The Sunborn

Part III, “Beyond Pluto”, Chapter 4, “The Solar Ramparts” (p. 206)
The Sunborn (2005)