Gregory Benford
“Deep ignorance, but still a kind that knew its limits. The limits were crucial.”
Gregory Benford libro Timescape
Fuente: Timescape (1980), Chapter 31 (p. 360)
Contexto: 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.
“Passion was inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.”
Gregory Benford libro Timescape
Fuente: Timescape (1980), Chapter 14 (p. 182, known as Benford's law of controversy)
Contexto: It was an example of what he thought of as the Law of Controversy: Passion was inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.
Gregory Benford libro In the Ocean of Night
The Snark, p. 195
In the Ocean of Night (1977)
Contexto: Organic forms are in the universe of things and also reside in the universe of essences. There we cannot go. … You are a spontaneous product of the universe of things. We are not. This seems to give you … windows. It was difficult for me to monitor your domestic transmissions, they fill up with branches, spontaneous paths, nuances…
Gregory Benford libro Timescape
Fuente: Timescape (1980), Chapter 17 (p. 234)
“Trouble comes looking for you if you’re a fool.”
To the Storming Gulf, p. 126 (Originally published in Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1985)
In Alien Flesh (1986)
Part 6 “Aleph Null”, Chapter 4 (p. 226)
Against Infinity (1983)
“Soldiers for equality, uh? Glad you warned me. I’d have thought you were just thieves.”
Part 4 “Hiruko: Six Years Later”, Chapter 1 (p. 148)
Against Infinity (1983)
Nooncoming, p. 100 (Originally published in Universe 8, edited by Terry Carr), 1978
In Alien Flesh (1986)
Part 2 “Aleph”, Chapter 2 (p. 51)
Against Infinity (1983)
“Talkers never acted when they could talk.”
Redeemer, p. 53 (Originally published in Analog, April 1979)
In Alien Flesh (1986)
Time’s Rub, pp. 260-261
In Alien Flesh (1986)
Part 6 “Aleph Null”, Chapter 3 (p. 221)
Against Infinity (1983)
White Creatures, p. 170 (Originally published in New Dimensions 5, edited by Robert Silverberg), 1975
In Alien Flesh (1986)
“(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.”
Gregory Benford libro Timescape
Fuente: Timescape (1980), Chapter 17 (p. 235)
“The role of boredom in human history is underrated.”
Doing Lennon, p. 266 (Originally published in Analog, April 1975)
In Alien Flesh (1986)
“No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.”
Gregory Benford libro Timescape
Fuente: Timescape (1980), Chapter 37 (p. 395)
Doing Lennon, p. 268
In Alien Flesh (1986)
“Disintegration of structure equals information loss.”
Gregory Benford libro In the Ocean of Night
The Snark, a member of a machine-intelligence civilization, p. 195
In the Ocean of Night (1977)
“To shine is better than to reflect.”
Gregory Benford libro Timescape
Fuente: Timescape (1980), Chapter 16 (p. 220)
Afterword to Nooncoming, p. 104
In Alien Flesh (1986)
Gregory Benford libro Timescape
Fuente: Timescape (1980), Chapter 16 (p. 229)
Gregory Benford Artifact
Part 2, Chapter 6 (p. 80; ellipsis represents a minor elision of narration)
Artifact (1985)
“Religions do not teach doubt.”
Gregory Benford libro Timescape
Fuente: Timescape (1980), Chapter 27 (p. 322)
“The past was a jigsaw puzzle and you never had all the pieces.”
Gregory Benford Artifact
Part 1, Chapter 1 (p. 10)
Artifact (1985)
Gregory Benford libro Timescape
Fuente: Timescape (1980), Chapter 11 (p. 146)
Gregory Benford Artifact
Part 2, Chapter 7 (p. 86)
Artifact (1985)
“Man doesn’t have to take a gamble just ’cause it’s there. You got to learn that.”
Part 2 “Aleph”, Chapter 3 (p. 68)
Against Infinity (1983)
“Every boy knows he is immortal, but his parents, they are not so sure.”
Part 2 “Aleph”, Chapter 1 (p. 45)
Against Infinity (1983)
“But the answers come when they will, one piece at a time.”
Exposures, p. 232 (Originally published in Asimov’s, July 6, 1981)
In Alien Flesh (1986)
“The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail.”
Gregory Benford libro Timescape
Fuente: Timescape (1980), Chapter 43 (p. 441)
