Frasi di Gregory Benford
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Gregory Albert Benford è un autore di fantascienza e fisico statunitense.

I suoi romanzi più conosciuti sono quelli appartenenti alla saga della Galassia Centrale. Nel ciclo si ipotizza una galassia in cui le forme di vita organiche sono in costante lotta con altre forme di vita di origine meccanica.

Come fisico Benford lavora per la facoltà di fisica e astronomia dell'University of California, Irvine. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. Gennaio 1941
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Gregory Benford: Frasi in inglese

“Somehow to them, the press was always the judge of things scientific.”

Gregory Benford libro Timescape

Origine: Timescape (1980), Chapter 17 (p. 236, concerning cranks)

“Only fools get to join.”

Gregory Benford libro Timescape

Origine: Timescape (1980), Chapter 10 (p. 110, concerning the nuclear club)

“You know, my dear, you’re wrong that suffering ennobles people.”

Gregory Benford

She’d stopped to massage her hip, wincing. “It simply makes one cross.”
Nooncoming, p. 100 (Originally published in Universe 8, edited by Terry Carr), 1978
In Alien Flesh (1986)

“He didn’t regret growing older, it was a privilege denied to many.”

Gregory Benford

Origine: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Stars (2013), p. 342

“Manufacturing creates wealth, services distribute it.”

Gregory Benford

Origine: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Stars (2013), p. 320

“Marches don’t stop markets.”

Gregory Benford

Origine: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Stars (2013), p. 319

“Schools praised diversity but were culturally the same. Different skin color, same opinions.”

Gregory Benford

Origine: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Stars (2013), p. 318

“Science is about continuity of ideas, a web of connections.”

Gregory Benford

“A Scientist’s Notebook: Life on Mars?” in Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1997, p. 119

“When you have a Ph. D., you call them hypotheses, not guesses.”

Gregory Benford

Origine: Short fiction, Vortex, p. 107

“Data always overruled theory.”

Gregory Benford

Part 2, Chapter 10 (p. 111)
Cosm (1998)

“Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.”

Gregory Benford libro The Sunborn

Part III, “Beyond Pluto”, Chapter 4, “The Solar Ramparts” (p. 206)
The Sunborn (2005)

“Definitions had to be like a fat man’s belt - big enough to cover the subject but elastic enough to allow for change.”

Gregory Benford libro The Sunborn

The Sunborn (2005), Part II, Chapter 14, “This Immense Voyage” (p. 163)

“Nobody out here was going to find an alternative here to Earth’s tiresome clash of selfish individualisms and stifling collectivisms.”

Gregory Benford libro The Sunborn

The Sunborn (2005), Part II, Chapter 5, “A Day at the Beach” (p. 114)

“Puzzled frowns in the audience. Science reporters they might be, but high school chemistry was going a bit too deep for most.”

Gregory Benford libro The Sunborn

Part II, Chapter 4, “Disbelief” (p. 104)
The Sunborn (2005)

“He’s an order of magnitude better than mere diplomats. He’s a conniver.”

Gregory Benford libro The Sunborn

The Sunborn (2005), Part I, Chapter 6, “Last Train Out of Dodge” (p. 71)

“Not sure. When don’t know, do experiment.”

Gregory Benford libro The Sunborn

The Sunborn (2005), Part I, Chapter 4, “Vent R” (p. 47)

“After weeks of indoor work it actually felt good to be doing something—clean, direct, muscles and mind.”

Gregory Benford libro The Sunborn

The Sunborn (2005), Part I, Chapter 4, “Vent R” (p. 38)

“Exercise erased cares.”

Gregory Benford libro The Sunborn

The Sunborn (2005), Part I, “Raw Mars”, Chapter 4, “Vent R” (p. 37)

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