American author & astrophysicist (1941- )
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
He didn't regret growing older, it was a privilege denied to many.
GREGORY BENFORD
The Man Who Sold the Stars
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
Timescape
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
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
GREGORY BENFORD
Foundation's Fear
Disintegration of structure equals information loss.
GREGORY BENFORD
In the Ocean of Night
Boundaries got redrawn at the point of a sword, and the legal frame followed.
GREGORY BENFORD
The Man Who Sold the Stars
It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.
GREGORY BENFORD
Timescape
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