Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the internal combustion engine practical – thus, the car and airplane, leading inevitably to the rocket and outer-space exploration. Gregory Benford Read Quote
In coastal waters rich in runoff, plankton can swarm densely, a million in a drop of water. They color the sea brown and green where deltas form from big rivers, or cities dump their sewage. Tiny yet hugely important, plankton govern how well the sea harvests the sun’s bounty, and so are the foundation of the ocean’s food chain. Gregory Benford Read Quote
DNA sequencing opens vast ethical issues. We shall be able to know who has defective genes. What will it mean when we can be sure we’re not all born equal? Worked out, the implications will scare a lot of people. Insurance companies will not want to cover those with a genetic predisposition to illness, for example. Here lurk myriad lawsuits. Gregory Benford Read Quote
In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring. Gregory Benford Read Quote
