Author: Gregory Benford

Cites

• Isaac Newton (1)
  • IN: Timescape (1980) Novel, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external.
    FROM: Principia Mathematica, (1687), Book, UK
• P.C.W Davies (1)
  • IN: Timescape (1980) Novel, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: How is it possible to account for the difference between past and future when an examination of the laws of physics reveals only the symmetry of time?… present-day physics makes no provision whatever for a flowing time, or for a moving present moment.
    FROM: The Physics of Time Asymmetry, (1974), Book, UK
• Alexander Pope (1)
  • IN: Jupiter Project (1975) Novel, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Father of all! in every age In every clime ador’d, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!
    FROM: The Universal Prayer, (1738), Poem, UK
• Freeman Dyson (1)
  • IN: Shipstar (2014) Novel, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is better to be wrong than to be vague. In trial and error, the error is the true essential.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• T. S. Eliot (1)
  • IN: In the Ocean of Night (1977) Novel, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
    FROM: Little Gidding, (1942), Poem, UK
• Wallace Stevens (1)
  • IN: Across the Sea of Suns (1984) Novel, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: After the final no there comes a yes. And on that yes the future world depends. No was the night. Yes is this present sun.
    FROM: The Well Dressed Man With a Beard, (1954), Poem, US