Skip to content

A particle detector that ran beautifully was either obsolete or hadn’t been designed close enough to the cutting edge of the technology.

— Gregory Benford Cosm (1998)

Another quote →

More quotes by Gregory Benford

Would an alien outsider judge America’s performance by My Lai and Wounded Knee or by Lincoln and Jefferson?

The Sunborn (2005)

If you were damned certain you weren’t looking for something, there was a very good chance you wouldn’t see it.

Timescape (1980)

No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.

Timescape (1980)

Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

Foundation's Fear (1997)

Disintegration of structure equals information loss.

In the Ocean of Night (1977)

All Gregory Benford quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Gregory Benford (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.