Shadows of Eternity Quotes

“Self-knowledge, she thought ruefully, is mostly bad news.”
― Gregory Benford, Shadows of Eternity

“Nobody can test an idea before taking the trouble to have an idea.”
― Gregory Benford, Shadows of Eternity

“To expect the world to treat you fairly because you’re a good person, my new friend, is like expecting a bull not to charge you because you are a vegetarian.”
― Gregory Benford, Shadows of Eternity

“TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice. —AMBROSE BIERCE, THE DEVIL’S DICTIONARY, 1911”
― Gregory Benford, Shadows of Eternity

“Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.”
― Gregory Benford, Shadows of Eternity

“Not all lawyers are annoying. Some are dead.”
― Gregory Benford, Shadows of Eternity

“Never do anything for the first time.”
― Gregory Benford, Shadows of Eternity

“This universe wants to kill us, every day.”
― Gregory Benford, Shadows of Eternity

“Rachel thought about the many bottlenecks humanity had passed through—genetic squeezes of drought, predation, hardship—all forcing selection upward.”
― Gregory Benford, Shadows of Eternity

“Denisovans, Neanderthals, more. Trial balloons of biology.”
― Gregory Benford, Shadows of Eternity

“who could visualize four-dimensional surfaces in a non-Euclidean geometry,”
― Gregory Benford, Shadows of Eternity

“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
― Gregory Benford, Shadows of Eternity

“Her briefing had pointed out that the maximum angle that a dune could assume was independent of the local gravity, so this looked like dunes on Earth. The angle depended only on the dirt’s coefficient of friction,”
― Gregory Benford, Shadows of Eternity

“Back in the hard sunlight, the big open-air bus carried them”
― Gregory Benford, Shadows of Eternity

“The elevator brought them up slow and steady, giving them all time to reflect in silence.”
― Gregory Benford, Shadows of Eternity

“They got trapped, fought their way free.”
― Gregory Benford, Shadows of Eternity

“They must have evolved for running. Their minds were shaped by the two-dimensional frame of reckoning ground-bound minds know.”
― Gregory Benford, Shadows of Eternity

“As we had drilled for, over years.”
― Gregory Benford, Shadows of Eternity

“I have an allergy to dogma, including my own.”
― Gregory Benford, Shadows of Eternity

“Money is not the value for which goods are exchanged, but the value by which they are exchanged”
― Gregory Benford, Shadows of Eternity

“Cat said, “So we’re to host disgusting alien bags of bacteria that just spew it out in all directions?”
― Gregory Benford, Shadows of Eternity

“The explicit ones Rachel sent to the usual security people, while Catkejen watched with aghast fascination. Rachel shrugged them off. Years before, she had developed the art of tossing these on sight, forgetting them, not letting them gimp her game. Others were plainly generic: bellowed from pulpits, mosques, temples, and churches.”
― Gregory Benford, Shadows of Eternity

“She imagined what it was like to be a big, hairy animal, cock flopping as you walked, like a careless, unruly advertisement”
― Gregory Benford, Shadows of Eternity

“love’s from chemistry but sex is a matter of physics.”
― Gregory Benford, Shadows of Eternity

“In return it had used the energies to rebroadcast itself and its owners’ Message.”
― Gregory Benford, Shadows of Eternity

“She felt a heady kinesthetic rush of acceleration as a constellation of fusions drew her to a tight nexus.”
― Gregory Benford, Shadows of Eternity

“Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. —MULLAH NASRUDIN, 1200s AD”
― Gregory Benford, Shadows of Eternity