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"Wars don’t determine who’s right, only who’s left."
Gregory BenfordThis was what never failed to stir her—the unfathomable gulf between t — Gregory Benford
"This was what never failed to stir her—the unfathomable gulf between today’s thinking and the way the ancients thought. They were truly alien, not merely innocent agrarians with a foolish faith."
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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