American author & astrophysicist (1941- )
Humans and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. With aliens, that has to go double.
GREGORY BENFORD
Shipstar
Talkers never acted when they could talk.
GREGORY BENFORD
"Redeemer", In Alien Flesh
They will do anything for the worker, except become one.
GREGORY BENFORD
Timescape
People said that mathematicians were unworldly, and yammered on about how Einstein couldn't make correct change. Nonsense. Einstein just didn't give a damn. It was the subtle, the beautiful that concerned him.
GREGORY BENFORD
Artifact
Boundaries got redrawn at the point of a sword, and the legal frame followed.
GREGORY BENFORD
The Man Who Sold the Stars
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
afterword, Timescape
He didn't regret growing older, it was a privilege denied to many.
GREGORY BENFORD
The Man Who Sold the Stars
Never trust in theories, m'lad, if they're thought up by types who work in offices.
GREGORY BENFORD
Sailing Bright Eternity
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
GREGORY BENFORD
Foundation's Fear
Look, it's not love that makes the world go round, it's inertia.
GREGORY BENFORD
In the Ocean of Night