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Gregory Benford
American
Physicist
Born:
Jan 30
,
1941
Moon
People
Science
Space
Will
You
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In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.
Gregory Benford
Art
Boring
Postmodern
Obscene
Because
End
Offensive
In The End
The thing that most critics miss about Faulkner is that his famous storytelling voice is, in fact, a standard Southern storytelling voice that is typical of the Gulf Coast - Mississippi, Alabama and so on.
Gregory Benford
Typical
Faulkner
Gulf
Gulf Coast
Critics
About
Voice
Fact
Miss
Most
Mississippi
His
Southern
Famous
In Fact
Storytelling
Coast
Standard
Alabama
Thing
We hope we can slow or possibly reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer's.
Gregory Benford
Hope
Slow
Symptoms
Possibly
Alzheimer
Reverse
It really helps if you know your subject matter immediately. I find that enormously useful because then you can concentrate on all the usual novelistic things - the character, the plot and so forth - and you don't have to spend an enormous amount of time learning another trade, essentially.
Gregory Benford
Time
Character
You
Learning
Matter
Enormous
Spend
Immediately
Plot
Find
Concentrate
Know
Another
Because
Trade
Subject
Subject Matter
Essentially
Forth
Then
Really
Your
Useful
Usual
Helps
Amount
Things
The people who built the space program - both Soviet and U.S. - were readers of science fiction.
Gregory Benford
Science
People
Space
Both
Readers
Science Fiction
Built
Were
Soviet
Fiction
Space Program
Who
Program
The talk shows I've done are all radio for exactly this reason: I don't want to wear a rubber mask.
Gregory Benford
Mask
Exactly
Wear
Talk
Talk Shows
Done
Want
Reason
Radio
Shows
Rubber
Because I've been a full professor doing research and lecturing at the University of California, I didn't have a lot of time to write, so I have always used my unconscious a great deal to do the really heavy lifting.
Gregory Benford
Time
Great
Great Deal
Research
Write
Unconscious
Lifting
California
Because
Deal
Always
Doing
Been
Lecturing
Lot
Heavy
Really
Full
Used
Professor
University
University Of California
You don't actually have ideas; ideas have you.
Gregory Benford
You
Ideas
Actually
Will searching for distant messages work? Is there intelligent life out there? The SETI effort is worth continuing, but our common-sense beacons approach seems more likely to answer those questions.
Gregory Benford
Life
Work
Worth
Will
Approach
Our
Distant
Those
Out
Seems
More
Likely
Messages
Answer
Continuing
Questions
Intelligent
Intelligent Life
Effort
Searching
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