My feeling is that science is virtually an unexplored ground. It’s very visible – more so all the time – but there’s no fiction that tells us how scientists think, and they really don’t think the way that other people do. Gregory Benford Read Quote
At the end of the day, I sit down for about five minutes and review all the problems I’m working on, research problems or writing problems, and I go to sleep. Then when I wake up in the morning, I’ve trained myself to not open my eyes and to just lie there and recall the problems and see if there’s anything there. Gregory Benford Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The talk shows I’ve done are all radio for exactly this reason: I don’t want to wear a rubber mask. Gregory Benford Read Quote
The people who built the space program – both Soviet and U.S. – were readers of science fiction. Gregory Benford Read Quote
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 Read Quote
