Top 64 Quotes by Gregory Benford

About Gregory Benford

These are some quotes by American author Gregory Benford Physicist, who was born on January 30, 1941.

The world is neither running down nor deterministic, and a strict division of order versus chaos is just wrong.

The world is neither running down nor deterministic, and a strict division of order versus chaos is just wrong.

Gregory Benford

In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.

In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.

Gregory Benford

The people who built the space program - both Soviet and U.S. - were readers of science fiction.

The people who built the space program - both Soviet and U.S. - were readers of science fiction.

Gregory Benford

Mathematics cannot handle physical quantities like density that literally go to infinity.

Mathematics cannot handle physical quantities like density that literally go to infinity.

Gregory Benford

In science fiction, basic doubts featured prominently in the worlds of Philip K. Dick. I knew Phil for 25 years, and he was always getting onto me, a scientist. He was a great fan of quantum uncertainty, epistemology in science, the lot.

Gregory Benford

It really helps if you know your subject matter immediately. I find that enormously useful because then you can concentrate on all the usual novelistic things - the character, the plot and so forth - and you don't have to spend an enormous amount of time learning another trade, essentially.

Gregory Benford

As a literature of change driven by technology, science fiction presents religion to a part of the reading public that probably seldom goes to church.

As a literature of change driven by technology, science fiction presents religion to a part of the reading public that probably seldom goes to church.

Gregory Benford

We have a name for people who create universes - they're called gods. There is no greater hubris than to think that we could take the place of godlike implications.

We have a name for people who create universes - they're called gods. There is no greater hubris than to think that we could take the place of godlike implications.

Gregory Benford

Will searching for distant messages work? Is there intelligent life out there? The SETI effort is worth continuing, but our common-sense beacons approach seems more likely to answer those questions.

Will searching for distant messages work? Is there intelligent life out there? The SETI effort is worth continuing, but our common-sense beacons approach seems more likely to answer those questions.

Gregory Benford

Seeing the space future through science fiction can be difficult. Much science fiction of the early era, the 1950s through the '70s, took an expansionist view.

Seeing the space future through science fiction can be difficult. Much science fiction of the early era, the 1950s through the '70s, took an expansionist view.

Gregory Benford

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