"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."

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Source : "Timescape". Book by Gregory Benford, 1980.

Gregory Benford

#Voice Quotes #Forever Quotes #Literature Quotes

“They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'”
“Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.”
“I believe that true beauty comes from inside you and that always shows through. I have no problem with whatever the next look is, whether it's big blonde hair and blue eyes or green hair and dark eyes. That's fine so long as there isn't just one ideal image.”
“Some of the stories in Dogwalker were written as long as four years ago, but I wouldn't say I've been working on this collection for four years. I have always been a little unsure of whether I could make it as a writer so I've held other jobs and worked on other projects this whole time.”

Source : Source: www.bookbrowse.com
“A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.”

Source : "Q&A With Finance Minister Chidambaram". Interview with Amol Sharma, Paul Beckett, blogs.wsj.com. October 8, 2012.
“Steve Jobs was not only the heart and soul of Apple, he was the wind underneath the technology market. Both are significantly diminished by his passing.”
“If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?”
“The story of my grandmother is that of a French woman from the provinces who through her perseverance and thirst for knowledge worked her way up to become the head of a school. She belonged to a generation that didn't travel much. But she believed in Europe and she wanted Europe. And she read a lot - she knew mythology, literature and the classics very well. She passed that on to me, along with the conviction that you can earn your own position in society.”

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