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Gregory Benford Inspirational Quotes (16)

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(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.
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When the chemistry is right, all the experiments work.
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The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail.
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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.
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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.
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If you are losing at a game, change the game.
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They will do anything for the worker, except become one.
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Peter Watts delivers-solid, inventive hard sf about the deep sea, but as we've never seen before. This moves like the wind.
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In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a passive state. People who give up, die.
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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.
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People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.
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Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.
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No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.
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Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available
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The biggest mistake is being too afraid of making one.
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
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