Gregory Benford: Doing

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“He went to Los Angeles to do the work even though he hated the city; it was full of happy homogeneous people without structure or direction. While on the bus to work, it seemed to him Los Angeles went on long after it had already made its point.”

Gregory Benford

White Creatures, p. 170 (Originally published in New Dimensions 5, edited by Robert Silverberg), 1975
In Alien Flesh (1986)

“Religions do not teach doubt.”

Gregory Benford book Timescape

Source: Timescape (1980), Chapter 27 (p. 322)

““We will be just like the USA. Only we will be more honest.”
”We’ve got two parties.”
“No you do not. You have only the party of the banks, of the money men, and they divide it into two pieces for your voting.””

Gregory Benford Artifact

Part 2, Chapter 7 (p. 86)
Artifact (1985)

““You’ll never get it to follow orders.”
“Slaves follow orders, Colonel. You want something done a slave can’t, you don’t ask for a slave to do it.””

Gregory Benford

Part 2 “Aleph”, Chapter 3 (p. 68)
Against Infinity (1983)

“It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.”

Gregory Benford book Timescape

Source: Timescape (1980), Chapter 39 (p. 411)

“They will do anything for the worker, except become one.”

Gregory Benford book Timescape

Source: Timescape (1980), Chapter 5 (p. 46, concerning the peers)

“Not sure. When don’t know, do experiment.”

Gregory Benford book The Sunborn

The Sunborn (2005), Part I, Chapter 4, “Vent R” (p. 47)

“After weeks of indoor work it actually felt good to be doing something—clean, direct, muscles and mind.”

Gregory Benford book The Sunborn

The Sunborn (2005), Part I, Chapter 4, “Vent R” (p. 38)