Part 5, Chapter 3 (p. 243)
Artifact (1985)
“Passion was inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.”
— Gregory Benford, book Timescape
Source: Timescape (1980), Chapter 14 (p. 182, known as Benford's law of controversy)
Context: It was an example of what he thought of as the Law of Controversy: Passion was inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.
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