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Quotes from Cosm — Gregory Benford

born 1941 United States

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He whispered, “Honey, it’s good ol’ love makes the world go round.”
“Actually, it’s inertia.”

Cosm (1998)

The ship of theory could set sail on tides of mathematical grandeur and hope alone, but only data could fill its sails.

Cosm (1998)

The desire to find something could provoke what she called “wantum mechanics,” fishing a result out of nothing but noise.

Cosm (1998)

Engineers never liked the unexplained, whereas physicists lived for it.

Cosm (1998)

Given a choice between existential despair and rapt religious fervor, her crowd chose marijuana.

Cosm (1998)

She needed some fresh illumination, all right, but not the kind that comes through the west window of a church.

Cosm (1998)

Ours is not to reason why, ours is to measure and report—the experimenter’s credo.

Cosm (1998)

Science’s success did not need a God to explain it; the world was enough.

Cosm (1998)

To believe anything so far-fetched, I’d have to see a solid calculation.

Cosm (1998)

When in enough doubt, let your subconscious work on the problem.

Cosm (1998)

Her eyes flipped down through the usual scandal, gossip, and politics, noting that there didn’t seem to be much difference between them anymore.

Cosm (1998)

Women lurching around on heels they couldn’t manage (“sexy evening columns” as Frederick’s termed them)—further proof yet again that money can’t buy a clue.

Cosm (1998)

“I’ll be thinking of you as they roll me into a grave marked ‘Nobody Special.’”

Cosm (1998)

Government doesn’t often move quickly, but when they do, it’s like an elephant stampede.

Cosm (1998)

Thing about crazies is, they’re crazy. You can’t even understand them in retrospect.

Cosm (1998)

A damned big clue, but pointing at what? When in doubt, get some numbers.

Cosm (1998)

Inside, the place had enough bare concrete and ribbed ducts and stark lighting to be a surrealist theme bar. Very hip but still just another joint where luncheon was lunch for six bucks extra.

Cosm (1998)

Indeed, high-blown rhetoric plus uncheckable consequences were the two sure signatures of the crank.

Cosm (1998)

Only senators and simpletons thought science took place in neatly drawn boxes.

Cosm (1998)

Prolonged exposure to journalists made her distrust any news report; they got matters wrong so casually, even the simple ones.

Cosm (1998)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gregory Benford (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.