Enzymes - plainly the most important biotechnology of our era - already permeate many industrial processes. Unlike fossil fuels, they carry chemical programming which drives complex reactions, are renewable, and work at ordinary pressures and temperatures. Gregory Benford biotechnologycarrychemical share on social
Whatever the life form, evolution selects for economy of resources. Gregory Benford economyevolutionform Change image and share on social
This was the 1940s; there was no television. It was a different age - it was not swamped by media; it was swamped by reality, and storytelling was a very big art where I came from. Gregory Benford 1940sageart Change image and share on social
When Joseph Wambaugh writes about the LAPD, you listen because you know he knows the scene. Lots of people write cop novels, but they don't have that authenticity. Gregory Benford authenticitycopjoseph Change image and share on social
The world is neither running down nor deterministic, and a strict division of order versus chaos is just wrong. Gregory Benford chaosdeterministicdivision Change image and share on social
I'm a very big Faulkner fan 'cause I'm a Southerner. Gregory Benford bigfanfaulkner Change image and share on social
Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the internal combustion engine practical - thus, the car and airplane, leading inevitably to the rocket and outer-space exploration. Gregory Benford airplanecarcombustion share on social
In science fiction, basic doubts featured prominently in the worlds of Philip K. Dick. I knew Phil for 25 years, and he was always getting onto me, a scientist. He was a great fan of quantum uncertainty, epistemology in science, the lot. Gregory Benford basicdickdoubt share on social
To us large creatures, space-time is like the sea seen from an ocean liner, smooth and serene. Up close, though, on tiny scales, it's waves and bubbles. At extremely fine scales, pockets and bubbles of space-time can form at random, sputtering into being, then dissolving. Gregory Benford bubbleclosecreature share on social
Science fiction writers didn't predict the fade-out of NASA's manned space operations, and they weren't prepared with alternative routes to space when that decline became undeniable. Gregory Benford alternativedeclinefade Change image and share on social
