Gregory Benford

Gregory Benford
Gregory Benfordis an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. He is also a contributing editor of Reason magazine...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 January 1941
CountryUnited States of America
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Mathematics cannot handle physical quantities like density that literally go to infinity.
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Like immense time-binding discussions, genres allow ideas to be developed and traded, and for variations to be spun down through decades.
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In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.
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I've always felt that specialization is best left to the insects.
I'm a very big Faulkner fan 'cause I'm a Southerner.
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I have an artificial left shoulder, wired back together after a softball accident.
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Fandom grew first through individual correspondence. It was cheap and quick, continent-wide contact for a penny stamp.
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Experience shows that if you put more ethicists on a problem, you can end up with more problems.
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Congress came to see NASA primarily as a jobs program, not an exploratory agency.
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Certainly I see no reason why society should prevent grieving parents from having a baby cloned from the cells of a dead child if they wish.
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Around 1930, a small new phenomenon arose in Depression-ridden America, spawned out of the letter columns in science fiction magazines: fandom.
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A view of nature as dense and nonlinear is at the core of our contemporary science. Process and order emerge subtly.
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To deliver vast new resources to humanity, we must pioneer and occupy the moon, Mars, and perhaps even beyond.
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Enzymes - plainly the most important biotechnology of our era - already permeate many industrial processes. Unlike fossil fuels, they carry chemical programming which drives complex reactions, are renewable, and work at ordinary pressures and temperatures.