Gregory Benford

"Nothing could be sure it was itself the original. So the only intelligent course lay in enjoying whatever life a being felt—living like a mortal, in the moment."

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

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

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

"As a political commentator of the time put it, most real-world people she knew thought of Washington, D.C., as a whorehouse where every four years ordinary folk got to elect a new piano player."

"The problem with the unknown was its lack of road signs."

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

"But the answers come when they will, one piece at a time."