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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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.
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To us large creatures, space-time is like the sea seen from an ocean liner, smooth and serene. Up close, though, on tiny scales, it's waves and bubbles. At extremely fine scales, pockets and bubbles of space-time can form at random, sputtering into being, then dissolving.
You don't actually have ideas; ideas have you.
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Reared in rural southern Alabama, we enjoyed an idyllic Huck Finn boyhood. But education there was casual at best. Our mother and father were high school teachers and challenged the pervasive easy-going ignorance.
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Our moon was born too small to harbor life. It came from the collision of a Mars-sized world into the primordial Earth. From that colossal crunch spun a disk of rocks that condensed into a satellite.
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'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.