I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects. — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
“Magic is doing something the other guy can’t do. We haven’t learned how to do it yet, so it’s magic. When we learn how and understand it, it’s science.” — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
“It’s easy to rattle the saber if the enemy’s five thousand or more kilometers distant.” — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
“Nothing has taken more money or killed more people in the history of your race than religion,” — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
“Magic,” Core responded, “is anything observable and perhaps repeatable that cannot be explained in terms of any existing knowledge on the part of the… — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
“It makes absolutely no difference in the scheme of things whether all but a handful of people live or die. No more than the… — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday. — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
“What was love, anyway? he mused. She said it was caring, caring more about someone else than about yourself.” — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them. — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
“Love is the most abused word in history. It is, simply, caring more for others than you do for yourself.” — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
“There are only three kinds of people in the universe, no matter what their race or form. They are scoundrels, hypocrites, and sheep.” — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain… — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
“Power without the wisdom to use it properly was a very good definition of evil,” — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
“there was supposed to be this man who was Jewish and claimed to be God’s son. For this the powers-that-be killed him, because they… — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image