Passion is inversely ...

Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available
 Gregory Benford

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Space travel leading to skylife is vital to human survival, because the question is not whether we will be hit by an asteroid, but when. A planetary culture that does not develop spacefaring is courting suicide. All our history, all our social progress and growing insight will be for nothing if we perish. No risk of this kind, however small it might be argued to be, is worth taking, and no cost to prevent it is too great. No level of risk is acceptable when it comes to all or nothing survival.
 Gregory Benford
It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.
 Gregory Benford
Peter Watts delivers-solid, inventive hard sf about the deep sea, but as we've never seen before. This moves like the wind.
 Gregory Benford
In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a passive state. People who give up, die.
 Gregory Benford
Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.
 Gregory Benford