The Martian Race Quotes

“Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, is the reverse.”
― Gregory Benford, The Martian Race

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”
― Gregory Benford, The Martian Race

“...the movies are most people's exposure to ideas about the future.”
― Gregory Benford, The Martian Race

“The secret lay in putting the future out of mind until it had arrived.”
― Gregory Benford, The Martian Race

“Woese”
― Gregory Benford, The Martian Race

“the hundredth person to climb a certain high peak—never mind Everest, the crown is a trash heap now.”
― Gregory Benford, The Martian Race

“Luciferase”
― Gregory Benford, The Martian Race

“For Shackleton, self-promotion had been essential all the way. He had paid all his expenses with media tie-ins, one way or another: auctioning off news and picture rights before he left, taking special postage stamps along to be franked at the south pole. After he made it, his bestseller had nine translations. He spruced up his expedition ship into a museum and charged admission.”
― Gregory Benford, The Martian Race

“One of the polar explorers, the one who got to the South Pole first, Shackleton”
― Gregory Benford, The Martian Race