Greg Bear Quotes

Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy.

To see the awful things is to see life as it really is. It makes you sharper, stronger, superior. You can stand it when others cannot.

About Author

Gregory Dale Bear (August 20, 1951 – November 19, 2022) was an American science fiction writer. His work covered themes of galactic conflict (Forge of God books), parallel universes (The Way series), consciousness and cultural practices (Queen of Angels), and accelerated evolution (Blood Music, Darwin's Radio, and Darwin's Children). His last work was the 2021 novel The Unfinished Land. Greg Bear wrote over 50 books in total.
He was one of the five co-founders of San Diego Comic-Con.

You seem to like helping, taking care of people, he said. That is admirable.You enjoy being nurtured?Well, that isn’t all you promise. When you touch me, I feel a fire at my center. You want me to gro...

I will learn by screwing up.

Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit short. And yet, despite the discomfort, the danger, I love it here. I love comin...

Equal in law is not equal in nature.

Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, shoul...

You are what you leave behind.

All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile,

Dogs could mellow a wild boy, or open up a shy one.

Robert’s problem was familiar to Aquinas. He called it ignorantia affectata, cultivated ignorance.

Thought moves like a dissociation of leaves across a lawn in a breeze.

But to fight something, you really have to try to understand its motivations—particularly when the something you’re fighting holds most of the cards, the deck is stacked against you, and the whole gam...

They’re trying to understand what space is. That’s tough for them. They break distances down into concentrations of chemicals. For them, space is a range of taste intensities.

We've been sitting in our tree chirping like foolish birds for over a century now, wondering why no other birds answered. The galactic skies are full of hawks, that's why. Planetisms that don't know e...

When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what we have become.

Mother Nature is a bitch.

Welcome to the truth of our world-a massive seed shot out to the stars, filled with deadly children. A seed designed to slay everything it touches.

Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.