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Gregory Benford, né le 30 janvier 1941 à Mobile , est un écrivain de science-fiction, plus particulièrement de hard science-fiction, et un physicien spécialiste de la physique des plasmas, professeur de physique à l'Université d'Irvine en Californie. Wikipedia  

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Gregory Benford: Citations en anglais

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

Gregory Benford livre Timescape

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

“Only fools get to join.”

Gregory Benford livre Timescape

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

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

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)

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

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

“Manufacturing creates wealth, services distribute it.”

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

“Marches don’t stop markets.”

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.”

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

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

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

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

Source: Short fiction, Vortex, p. 107

“Data always overruled theory.”

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 livre The Sunborn

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

“Definitions had to be like a fat man’s belt - big enough to cover the subject but elastic enough to allow for change.”

Gregory Benford livre The Sunborn

The Sunborn (2005), Part II, Chapter 14, “This Immense Voyage” (p. 163)

“Nobody out here was going to find an alternative here to Earth’s tiresome clash of selfish individualisms and stifling collectivisms.”

Gregory Benford livre The Sunborn

The Sunborn (2005), Part II, Chapter 5, “A Day at the Beach” (p. 114)

“Puzzled frowns in the audience. Science reporters they might be, but high school chemistry was going a bit too deep for most.”

Gregory Benford livre The Sunborn

Part II, Chapter 4, “Disbelief” (p. 104)
The Sunborn (2005)

“He’s an order of magnitude better than mere diplomats. He’s a conniver.”

Gregory Benford livre The Sunborn

The Sunborn (2005), Part I, Chapter 6, “Last Train Out of Dodge” (p. 71)

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

Gregory Benford livre 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 livre The Sunborn

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

“Exercise erased cares.”

Gregory Benford livre The Sunborn

The Sunborn (2005), Part I, “Raw Mars”, Chapter 4, “Vent R” (p. 37)