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"Science is about continuity of ideas, a web of connections."
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"There was something about such reflex stupidity that never failed to irritate him."
Gregory Benford
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Gregory Benford is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is professor emeritus at the department of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. He is a contributing editor of Reason magazine.
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