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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| da31ac3 | They will do anything for the worker, except become one. | Gregory Benford | ||
| ddce794 | The peers just fill the air with their speeches.""And from what I've seen, vice versa." | Gregory Benford | ||
| 7d46a21 | Only fools get to join. | Gregory Benford | ||
| b86115f | At least being prosperous set one apart in England; here it guaranteed nothing, not even taste. | Gregory Benford | ||
| da5f910 | To shine is better than to reflect. | Gregory Benford | ||
| cf4e95c | There was something about such reflex stupidity that never failed to irritate him. | Gregory Benford | ||
| b18f517 | Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable. | Gregory Benford | ||
| fe536e1 | Somehow to them, the press was always the judge of things scientific. | Gregory Benford | ||
| 6a80b8c | Free will again," Cathy said."Or free won't," Peterson said mildly. | Gregory Benford | ||
| e682564 | Religions do not teach doubt. | Gregory Benford | ||
| a21b1f0 | No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal. | Gregory Benford | ||
| 1bb043c | The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail. | Gregory Benford | ||
| 8e40ff7 | Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future. | Gregory Benford | ||
| 6d43eb4 | Every boy knows he is immortal, but his parents, they are not so sure. | Gregory Benford | ||
| c9f3d5f | Man doesn't have to take a gamble just 'cause it's there. You got to learn that. | Gregory Benford | ||
| c2911fa | There's plenty--""Plenty is exactly what there's none of." | Gregory Benford | ||
| 58404aa | Soldiers for equality, uh? Glad you warned me. I'd have thought you were just thieves. | Gregory Benford | ||
| 5c4d53b | The past was a jigsaw puzzle and you never had all the pieces. | Gregory Benford | ||
| 8c9e426 | Maybe is not a theory, you know, it is merely maybe. | Gregory Benford | ||
| e029dd0 | Just because something's crazy, doesn't mean it's wrong. | Gregory Benford | ||
| 649b240 | Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced. | Gregory Benford | ||
| 08df4cd | Engineers never liked the unexplained, whereas physicists lived for it. | Gregory Benford | ||
| 1a898bb | Teaching was all very fine, but research made the heart sing. | Gregory Benford | ||
| 039bf13 | So he looks like a potential Mr. Right?""No, just Mr. Right Now." | Gregory Benford | ||
| 6429db4 | The problem with the unknown was its lack of road signs. | Gregory Benford | ||
| 6243e33 | A damned big clue, but pointing at what? When in doubt, get some numbers. | Gregory Benford | ||
| 6ae9e0d | When in enough doubt, let your subconscious work on the problem. | Gregory Benford | ||
| 06a5bd0 | Only senators and simpletons thought science took place in neatly drawn boxes. | Gregory Benford | ||
| 18267f8 | Diversity" had come to mean Balkanization. | Gregory Benford | ||
| 8958a08 | Data always overruled theory. | Gregory Benford | ||
| 5170c78 | Law of the universe," she said. "The longer the menu description, the worse the food." | Gregory Benford | ||
| 956ac04 | I like Orange County, though. It's like L.A. without caffeine. | Gregory Benford | ||
| 10dd205 | To believe anything so far-fetched, I'd have to see a solid calculation. | Gregory Benford | ||
| c96927e | Ours is not to reason why, ours is to measure and report--the experimenter's credo. | Gregory Benford | ||
| 48adea5 | Thing about crazies is, they're crazy. You can't even understand them in retrospect. | Gregory Benford | ||
| 8ee0473 | Indeed, high-blown rhetoric plus uncheckable consequences were the two sure signatures of the crank. | Gregory Benford | ||
| 233162a | Given a choice between existential despair and rapt religious fervor, her crowd chose marijuana. | Gregory Benford | ||
| c930ee2 | Well, this was what dads were for: saying the unsayable when you needed it. | Gregory Benford | ||
| 957dccb | Science's success did not need a God to explain it; the world was enough. | Gregory Benford | ||
| f82baeb | Government doesn't often move quickly, but when they do, it's like an elephant stampede. | Gregory Benford | ||
| 4f0de57 | I'll be thinking of you as they roll me into a grave marked 'Nobody Special.'" | Gregory Benford | ||
| 182f389 | Whole world is sitting on ass, watching glorious Twenty-first century on TV. | Gregory Benford | ||
| b3df1e7 | That's how business works. There's always somebody coming in on your blind side. | Gregory Benford | ||
| 937ca9c | It was just good luck, last minute luck.""Your 'luck' was mostly sweat and intuition." | Gregory Benford |