Quotes from benford gregory iii

Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.

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

Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury -- or at least comfort -- so there's a lot of frustration and resentment when the dream craps out.

It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

Once introduced into this world, life would never leave--there was no end to the explosive, consuming, voracious lust of long chain molecules to link and match and make of themselves yet more and more and again more.

Boundaries got redrawn at the point of a sword, and the legal frame followed.

Disintegration of structure equals information loss.