It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure. Gregory Benford More Quotes by Gregory Benford More Quotes From Gregory Benford Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living. Gregory Benford voiceliteratureforever Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future. Gregory Benford welfaremoderneconomics The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail. Gregory Benford tidesnationsdetails No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal. Gregory Benford plansrealmatter Peter Watts delivers-solid, inventive hard sf about the deep sea, but as we've never seen before. This moves like the wind. Gregory Benford seawindmoving (Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable. Gregory Benford cranktheoryfirsts One of the laws of nature," Gordon said, "is that half the people have got to be below average.""For a Gaussian distribution, yeah," Cooper said. "Sad, though. Gregory Benford lawaveragepeople SF is a controlled way to think and dream about the future. An integration of the mood and attitude of science (the objective universe) with the fears and hopes that spring from the unconscious. Anything that turns you and your social context, the social you, inside out. Nightmares and visions, always outlined by the barely possible. Gregory Benford dreamspringattitude Jeff Carver is a hard sf writer who gets it right-his science and his people are equally convincing. NEPTUNE CROSSING combines his strengths, from a chilling look at alien machine intelligence, to cutting-edge chaos theory, to the pangs of finite humans in the face of the infinite. If you like intriguing ideas delivered in an exciting plot, this is your meat. Gregory Benford cuttingpeopleideas You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's pain and harshness and wretched dreariness with - no not with certainty but with an ignorance you could live with. Deep ignorance, but still a kind that knew its limits. The limits were crucial. Gregory Benford paineverydayignorance Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the internal combustion engine practical - thus, the car and airplane, leading inevitably to the rocket and outer-space exploration. Gregory Benford computersairplanecarradio Aging is mostly the failure to repair. Gregory Benford mostlyrepairagingfailure 'Star Trek' is notorious for looting the more thoughtful work of writers for their striking effects, leaving behind most of the thought and subtlety. Gregory Benford behindthoughtthoughtfulwork I've always felt that specialization is best left to the insects. Gregory Benford bestalwaysinsectsleft The simplest way to remove carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, is to grow plants - preferably trees, since they tie up more of the gas in cellulose, meaning it will not return to the air within a season or two. Plants build themselves out of air and water, taking only a tiny fraction of their mass from the soil. Gregory Benford plantsgrowwaterway In coastal waters rich in runoff, plankton can swarm densely, a million in a drop of water. They color the sea brown and green where deltas form from big rivers, or cities dump their sewage. Tiny yet hugely important, plankton govern how well the sea harvests the sun's bounty, and so are the foundation of the ocean's food chain. Gregory Benford oceanseafoodwater Star Trek's insight lay in the promise of going to the stars together, with well-defined stereotypes who could supply the emotional frame for the potentially jarring truths of these distant places. Gregory Benford stereotypesemotionalstarstogether Like the ocean, land plants hold about three times as much carbon as the atmosphere. While oceans take many centuries to exchange this mass with the air, flora take only a few years. Gregory Benford plantslikethreeocean As fandom grew more variegated, genzines reflected a broadening of interests, carrying personal columns of humor and reflection, science articles, amateur fiction, stylish gossip, and inevitably, thoughtful pieces on the future of fandom. Gregory Benford futurehumorreflectionscience Science fiction writers didn't predict the fade-out of NASA's manned space operations, and they weren't prepared with alternative routes to space when that decline became undeniable. Gregory Benford nasapredictspacescience
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