Quotes from Greg Bear

Orson Hamill has called the conservative sickness of the twentieth century. There

Only the threat of the Flood itself could have forced me back from utterly extirpating humanity.

What are Captain

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If the universe agrees that past events are not contradicted by a theory, the theory becomes a template. The universe goes along with it. The better the theory fits the facts, the longer it lasts—if it lasts at all.

The quest, the fight—never the finding or the victory.

Nothing was ever truly lost, if you only had access to all the eyes and senses in the universe, as he sometimes imagined God did. God himself had no eyes; He made eyes and put living things in charge of them, that He might witness the majesty of creation from an objective viewpoint.

studying extreme deviations from stated principles

We have no proof introns don't code for something.

We then break the universe down into territories—our particular territory, as human beings, beings thus far quite distinct. No extraterrestrial contact, you know. If there are other intelligent beings beyond the Earth, they would occupy yet other territories of theory.

The horizon curved upward to both sides. Not good, not right. Horizons do not curve up.

The sorrow never dies; it is merely pearled by time. No

You could not accept our judgment, could not bear up under your inferiority, so you reached out and did what we never expected from those we gave design and life and the change that is thought.

I've seen that look on cabinet ministers," Merton observed quietly. "When they were stuffed full of too many secrets.

I remembered the ancient flowers Charles had given me near Trés Haut Médoc, cut from the Glass Sea beds. Now he offered me a bouquet of stars. After the weariness and grief, Charles could still take my breath away.

About the anti em conversion process. I think they've worked out ways to access a particle's bit structure, its self-information. To do that, they'd have to tamper with the so-called privileged channels.

Baryons don't expand when the universe expands.

How nice it would be to know nothing about all the inner workings. Animal innocence; the unexamined life is the sweetest. But things go wrong and prompt introspection and examination. The root of all awareness.

It makes me feel young to be wrong so often.

bosons—photons, and so on— are in some respects strongly tied to spacetime. Their wavelengths expand as the universe expands.

Truth is a hunter. Truth is what kills you when you give up the lies.

War was not an option. Radios, trucks and automobiles, planes and missiles and bombs, were just not reliable. A few Middle Eastern countries carried on feuds, but without much enthusiasm.

We shouldn't cross this place," I said. "A bad, sad place. It doesn't know it's dead.

Until now, the densest single unit of information processing on this planet was the human brain